Larry Gelbart Quotes
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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But you need to straddle the line, I think.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.
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That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
