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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The bigger concern for me was defensively. I knew the offense was going to come. The defense was an issue for us. You won't do well down the stretch if you don't take care of business defensively.
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
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I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
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What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's true. I think if I were living in the US, I would just turn my television and radio off for a year right now, and just read.
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I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.
