Rita Mae Brown Quotes
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
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I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
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Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.
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They say that our sense of smell is one of the strongest triggers of memories. Of course, our sense of smell is integral to our sense of taste, so it is no surprise, then, that in a life full of moving and traveling, food has always been a source of familiar comfort for me.
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Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
