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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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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 don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
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