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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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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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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Safety should be a birthright.
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I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street.
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Just so everyone knows, we're not a photo-sharing company. I don't see photos on 'Instagram' as art. They're much more about communication.
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In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
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I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
