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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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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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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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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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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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
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The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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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.
