Erma Bombeck Quotes
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.
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I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
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Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
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Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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Animals interest me more than anything else.
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Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'
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Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
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There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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For me and accent work, I think once you've figured out where that energy is, where the sound is in your throat or your mouth, it's a whole lot easier to do.
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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
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A lot of people have trouble with their second novel - the dreaded sophomore jinx. I wrote three books in between the two novels, and they just weren't very good.
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I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, the minor key, to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.
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With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
