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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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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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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I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
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I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that. It's been working for me, so I'd be cool with that.
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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.
