Betty MacDonald Quotes
Shyly Nancy and Plum sat down at the table while Mrs. Campbell heaped pink-flowered plates with baked beans, sausage cakes and salad, passed a steaming plate of brown bread, cut them off generous pieces of the pat of new butter and handed them big mugs of ice-cold milk.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
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Once you put bacon into a salad it's no longer a salad, it just becomes a game of find the bacon in the lettuce. It's like you're panning for gold, hmmmmm, EUREKA!
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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.
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At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
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I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.
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Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations.
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I will begin to remember our walk in the third person, as if I’d seen it from the Manhattan Bridge, but, at the time of writing, as I lean against the chain-link fence intended to stop jumpers, I am looking back at the totaled city in the second person plural. I know it’s hard to understand / I am with you, and I know how it is.
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Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.
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If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.
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Shyly Nancy and Plum sat down at the table while Mrs. Campbell heaped pink-flowered plates with baked beans, sausage cakes and salad, passed a steaming plate of brown bread, cut them off generous pieces of the pat of new butter and handed them big mugs of ice-cold milk.
