Tammy Bruce Quotes
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.
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It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
