Betty White Quotes
Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.
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When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
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Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
