Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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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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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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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 not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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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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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
