Erma Bombeck Quotes
You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.
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I've always been that person who's struggled to find a swimsuit that I love.
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It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.
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I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.
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My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
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I'm most comfortable when I'm in the studio and music playing.
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I have kids. I can't hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It's too much. I don't know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing.
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Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.
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I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.
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You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.
