"Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'"

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Source : BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”

Betty MacDonald

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“Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.”
“Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.”
“I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.”
“I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.”
“I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.”
“The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do that anymore. Now I'm true to myself as an artist again. I'm more vocally oriented.”

Source : "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.
“But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.”
“For me it's always God, family, and then my work.”

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