Brenda Ueland Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
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My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.
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When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
