Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Non sibi sed domino grauis est quae seruit egestas.
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I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardom immediately, because I get to enjoy the ride and the chase. Because nothing came easy, I really appreciate it when I book roles.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.
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I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
