Carol Burnett Quotes

I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy.

Carol Burnett

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
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• They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

  

  Adam Garcia
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• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
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• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
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• I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.

  

  Nancy Grace
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• Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I always have bananas with me for energy.

  

  Samantha Bond
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• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
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• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
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• And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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• Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

  

  Brody Jenner
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• I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Family
  • Character
  • Interesting