Betty MacDonald Quotes

Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She didn’t dare to look at her mother….

Betty MacDonald

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• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

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• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  

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• It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

  

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• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  

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• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

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• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

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• I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

  

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• I want to play until the end.

  

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• Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

  

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• There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

  

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• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

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• Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

  

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• I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

  

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• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  

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• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

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• A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

  

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• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  

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• A million years went by quick.

  

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• Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

  

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• I love our industry. I love the song. I love the voice. I love it. Not necessarily my voice. But I care about the song and the voice.

  

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• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

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• When I played, a pitcher could throw at you any time he wanted to. In fact, he could tell you he was going to throw at you, and there was nothing said. You had to take it. If he hit ya, he hit ya.

  

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• Penelope (the parrot) squawked, ‘I’ll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!’ Mary was certainly surprised at that because she thought that she had made up that brilliant remark. She didn’t dare to look at her mother….

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Mother
  • Surprised
  • Parrot