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'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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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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As quoted in Zirkle, Conway (1935), The beginnings of plant hybridization p. 105
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I want to do really good things with my life.
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Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
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I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.
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I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.
