Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
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You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
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Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
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If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
