Betty White Quotes
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
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Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.
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It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.
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Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
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I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.
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My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.
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I have the backbone of an eel.
