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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We care about margins.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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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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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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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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Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because I don't want to feel like I could just make people laugh at every single joke, every single time, with the same decibel level.
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I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
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Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
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I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time.
