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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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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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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What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
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We've got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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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.
