Burt Ward Quotes
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
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There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
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It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.
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There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.
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Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
