Carol Burnett Quotes
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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I've been to a lot of places while touring, but I'd have to say Switzerland was my favorite.
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It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.
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Every time you get told you get a part, it's just wonderfully soothing and incredibly fantastic and healing. You have a bad day at school, you come home and get told you've got a part in something, and it's just like, 'Yeah, it's all worth it'.
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I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.
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Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
