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 don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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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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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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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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Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.
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I once made myself black out by pulling G too quickly while flying an F-18. Being unconscious in a single-seat airplane is not good. Fortunately, I woke up in time. I learned how to better plug-in my anti-G suit.
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I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven't even seen the Monty Python musical, and I'm a huge Monty Python fan.
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A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
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This is a celebration of a great historic figure.
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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
