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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It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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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 think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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 am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
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We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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God will defeat the great infidels.
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I eat very well, and I do Pilates.
