Rita Mae Brown Quotes
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
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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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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Pope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes.
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I've been writing songs all my life. My mom said I wrote my first song when I was two.
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
