Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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I like the language in Proust but not the context.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.
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I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.
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...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, What the heck do you think I'm doing? I'm laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?
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A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.
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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
