Carol Burnett Quotes
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Music is about the performance.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!
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I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
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I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
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I eat very well, and I do Pilates.
