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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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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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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I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.
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I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
