Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
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I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.
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I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
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The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say practically anything about movement or what the movement stood for, what it had done, or anything, but was simply adulation of the leader, you know, [Martin Luther] King.
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The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
