Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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There were times when I didn't think I would even be at the European Championship. so to be walking off the field, having scored the winning goal in front of our home fans, just got too much for me.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
