Mary Badham Quotes
I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.
