Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I have worked with some great directors.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Women drive box office.
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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
