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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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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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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Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
