Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.
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Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
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People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.
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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
