Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones -
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
Varley O'Connor -
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson -
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
Zig Ziglar -
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht -
The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.
Jack W. Szostak
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson -
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Natasha Trethewey -
I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
Rand Paul -
Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
Pat Buchanan -
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman -
I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
Randy Wayne
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir -
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
H. P. Lovecraft -
You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
Victoria Principal -
We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
Victor Mitchell -
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
Wendy Davis -
The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
Jackie Chan
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I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.
D'Arcy Carden -
Music is just about having fun, being free, being yourself.
Megan Nicole -
I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.
Eli Roth -
If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.
Ingmar Bergman -
The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
Yelena Baturina -
It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.
Rita Mae Brown