Carol Burnett Quotes
My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
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I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo. I'm romantic, but I can also be seductive. I can be cool and charismatic, swagger-type.
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The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
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Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
