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Some people live life and others talk about it.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.
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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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Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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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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People are like tea bags you never know how strong they'll be until they're in hot water. In times of trouble, you not only discover what you truly believe but whether or not you can act on your beliefs.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.
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Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
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I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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