Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I started so young with the music thing and I had my parents always on the road with me. So at a time when I think I should have been rebelling, like in high school, they were actually my best friends.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
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I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
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My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.
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This album means a lot to me, and partnering with Cracker Barrel to have it in their stores is very exciting. I am a big fan of the brand, so it was a natural fit to team up with them to have 'You Should Be Here' in its stores nationwide.
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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
