Rita Mae Brown Quotes
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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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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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
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As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.
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The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
