Rita Mae Brown Quotes
One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
Rita Mae Brown
Quotes to Explore
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
Saint Basil
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto Eco
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Tabatha Coffey
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
Laini Taylor
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
Larry David
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I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
Adam DeVine
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I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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I just want to keep doing good projects with good people.
Katherine Langford
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My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.
Alexander Nehamas
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
Barry McGee
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To enable large U.S. banks to support their clients better, the Volcker rule should be clarified.
James P. Gorman
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One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"
Rita Mae Brown
