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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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same... When life now is pretty... exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.
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Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.
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Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
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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.
