Burgess Meredith Quotes
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I have learned to be patient.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.
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I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again.
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I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
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Kids ... Can't live with 'em ... Can't shoot 'em!
