Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
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Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
