Carol Burnett Quotes
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
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On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.
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I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time.
