"The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Billy Barty

#Thinking Quotes #Doctors Quotes #Nurse Quotes

“As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.”
“A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.”
“If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.”
“I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.”
“People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.”
“The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.”
“This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.”
“Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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