Kitty Carlisle Quotes
The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
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There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
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The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
