Betty Lynn Quotes
In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion.
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It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.
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Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
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Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.
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I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.
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No one's dream job involves a kiosk.
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We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.
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To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what happens after the fairy tale wedding. And this thought coincided or coalesced when I was at a wedding of a friend who got married to somebody that literally everybody in the congregation thought that you definitely should not get married to. This was the worst idea either of you have ever had.
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If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
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In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!
