Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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America is huge.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.
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That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
