Rita Mae Brown Quotes
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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You sort of have to become what you're wearing.
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Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.
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I love New York. It's my favorite city in the world.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more rigid and conservative. And white people in the U.K. have more close proximity with black people and people of colour in general.
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
