Mary Badham Quotes
Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know.
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I've been in New York for going on five years now, and I always thought I would make a mark and do something but I never thought it would be this big of a deal. I'm so blessed and I'm truly honored.
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Here's one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement. After Buckley, there was Ronald Reagan.
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My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.
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Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.
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Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
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Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.
