Betty MacDonald Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
-
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
-
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
-
According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
-
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
-
I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
-
Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
-
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
-
I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
-
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
-
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
-
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
-
I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'
-
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
-
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
-
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
-
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
-
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
-
I think there are a lot of things that are different and there are a lot of things that are the same.
-
We fought hard all day and kept slugging, ... I was proud of our guys because they've got great heart. They found a way to win the ballgame.
-
When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.
-
I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.
-
Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.
-
Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'
