Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.
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Worry destroys the ability to write.
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I don't have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
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Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
