Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?
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I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.
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I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
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I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
