Carol Burnett Quotes
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Every wall is a door.
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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I'm not a negative person.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes having something of substance to talk about; otherwise you're just considered to be fluff.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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My favorite word is 'redemption.' I like both its meaning and the sound. My least favorite word is 'maybe.' 'Maybe' is almost always a 'no' drawn out in cruel fashion.
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I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.
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I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
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I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
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I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.
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I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
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Give me the muny the cars, the case loads The mun-mun muny the Yen & the Pesos
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God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
