Carol Burnett Quotes
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
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When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
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I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.
