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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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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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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I was unpopular my whole life.
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In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.
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I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.
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Writers will happen in the best of families.
