Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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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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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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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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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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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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I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.
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Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.
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I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
