"We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?"
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Rita Mae Brown quotes (page 12 of 13)
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"the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate."
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"Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity."
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"Never let money control you. I'd rather see someone spend every red cent and relish his/her life than scrimp, obsess, and pinch the pennies. There's something repugnant about a person who centers his life around money."
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"Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000."
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"Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption."
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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."
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"Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish."
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"I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage."
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"I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed."
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"I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters."
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"American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England."
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"I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK."
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"I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways."
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"The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational."
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"Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you."
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"Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it."
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!"
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"Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy."
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"There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people."
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