Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
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Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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Confidence is seen, not heard.
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Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
