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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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
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At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
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One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.
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When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.
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I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.
