Betty MacDonald Quotes
Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
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My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
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Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
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Mental sunshine makes the mind grow, and perpetual happiness makes human nature a flower garden in bloom.
