Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
