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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When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
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Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
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Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
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Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."
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His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
