Carol Burnett Quotes
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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Many people think that female circumcision only started with the advent of Islam. But as a matter of fact it is well known and widespread in some areas of the world before the Islamic era, including the Arabian peninsula. Mohammad the Prophet tried to oppose this custom since he considered it harmful to the sexual health of the woman.
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It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.
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The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.
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If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist.
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I want people to know me as a real person, that I struggle with the same things they do, that I had to teach myself how to get through life in efficient ways.
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People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
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I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.
