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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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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While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
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I love 50 Cent. I know it sounds weird 'cause a lot of kids might not say that right now, but I definitely want to work with 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Coldplay: I want to work with different artists that are going to push my music to a new level. Not just in urban music.
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A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
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Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.
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How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith.
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I eat very well, and I do Pilates.
