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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One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not out of this sense of duty and that you'd be condemned to hell forever if you didn't, but because it will make all your lives better.
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I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.
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Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
