Rita Mae Brown Quotes
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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I hold a mini-New Year's Eve party each year with my son Ronan, and we make pigs in a blanket. They are delicious!
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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Everybody wants to be Doug Stanhope; everybody wants to be Bill Hicks - and those are great people to aim for, but they had the fundamentals down. They knew how to be funny.
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A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.
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I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
