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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It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
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With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
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My mother had me on four times on TV show 'To Tell The Truth'. Four times. Only once as a contestant, but they had a bunch of kids on at the beginning of some shows, playing with toys or things like that.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.
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Kids ... Can't live with 'em ... Can't shoot 'em!
