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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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.
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Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
