Edgar Bergen Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
