Rita Mae Brown Quotes
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
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It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.
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The message to all young Americans is that it's great to have a dream; it's great to have goals.
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I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying ‘cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job, but his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom.
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It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.