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've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
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As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
