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.
Faith Evans -
Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
Ian Hacking -
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.
Wade Boggs -
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
Zoe Saldana -
It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
Carice van Houten
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride -
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.
Captain Beefheart -
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.
Zach Anner -
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
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.
Manuel Puig
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher -
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis -
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.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle -
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
Calvin Trillin -
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.
Jack White The White Stripes
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Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.
Jesmyn Ward -
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
Bill Vaughan -
Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
Kate Voegele -
Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she Eleanor Roosevelt ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.
Blanche Wiesen Cook -
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
Gary Numan -
Humor comes from self-confidence.
Rita Mae Brown