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Betty Parsons Quotes

My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 31, 1900 - July 23, 1982

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Work Me Husband Never Anything

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

New Cultures New Orleans Israel Like

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.

Mother Woman Me Think Seeing Play

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Live Revenge Want Everyday Mean Up

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

Words Thinking Say Screen Been Our

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

Yourself Crazy Comedy You Possible

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Anxiety Die You Go Will Knowing

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Wilson Greatbatch

History New Available Material Arise

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Corruption Talking Television Train

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Truck Year Fairness Tax Island Need

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

Funny Job You Soon Realized Wanted

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places.

Richard Stanley

Better Devil You Back Now Lying

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

Time People Weird Born Wrong Place

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