Mary Badham Quotes
My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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People have to evolve.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.
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I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up stripping out the natural oils. What I like to do is just rinse out the products that I've used during the week and then put leave-in conditioner in and let it dry naturally.
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I usually have a lip balm in my bag and mascara as well. I don't really wear much make-up, but I like mascara because I've got fair colouring.
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We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs.
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When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
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Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.
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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
