Vicki Lawrence Quotes
Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Justice is revenge.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'
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Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
