Betty Lynn Quotes
I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.
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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.
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Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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Vintage never fits the way you think it will.
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I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.
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There's not a lot of light on television.
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I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was also part of the drama group, which was filled with actors and writers and wasn't really accepted by the rest of the school.
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School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.
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I'd been visiting Mount Airy every year for Mayberry Days. Twice when I was doing personal appearances, one in Alabama and once for Mayberry Days, my house in Los Angeles was robbed. I decided I didn't want to live there anymore, so I moved to Mount Airy, and I am so glad I did!
