Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
Rafael Nadal -
It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
Val Kilmer -
So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
Fatema Mernissi -
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
Ilan Stavans -
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
Rachel Cusk
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
Garry Trudeau -
I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
Farooq Abdullah -
I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
Nathan Fillion -
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
Carlton Cuse -
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Lalla Ward
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
Ian Doescher -
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton -
There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.
Sam Huntington -
I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
Abbey Clancy
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The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.
Carol Vorderman -
To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
Bill Vaughan -
Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
Cameron Diaz -
I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas -
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Karl Kraus -
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown