Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
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Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Make the iron hot by striking it.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Morals are private. Decency is public.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
Writers will happen in the best of families.
You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.
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