Carol Burnett Quotes
I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.
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I think we ultimately ought to look to put all uranium enrichment and fuel reprocessing, if any is done, under multinational control. Those are the two technologies by which nuclear energy can be translated into nuclear weapons programmes.
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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.
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The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God.
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Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.
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I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
