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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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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I read the collected works of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and made a list of everything the old Baptist preacher had ever condemned as immoral or untoward. The subjects of his condemnation ranged from college-age women going braless to dogs wearing clothes to Beyonce.
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The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use 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.
