Erma Bombeck Quotes
Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company. But you also end up in the company of people you don't admire, including some rather dodgy politicians.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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I became one of the stately homos of England.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
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People want to see themselves in the industry that, for so long, has ostracized girls of my size.
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You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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Lucasfilm called me out of the blue, and I almost hung up because I thought it was a practical joke. This was right before 'Revenge Of The Sith' came out. Here you are, a big 'Star Wars' fan, talking about 'Star Wars' all the time, and you have your master replica lightsaber, and then you get a call from Lucasfilm for a job?
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Voters are smart. They know the difference between a Democratic Party that wants their vote and a Democratic Party that believes in making their life better. They'll forgive you for pushing a policy they don't like as long as they believe you're doing it because you genuinely believe it's what's best for the country.
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Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'
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I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'
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Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.
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I have to tell you, I'm a happy man. I've lived the life I wanted to live. I've written the books I wanted to write. No publisher has ever even suggested that I change so much as a phrase - commas and periods, yes - and I suspect that I have a lot of serious readers; in fact, I know.
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I enjoy working. And, I really enjoy the fact that I get to do what I love and call it work.
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In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.
