Carol Burnett Quotes
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Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Zach Wamp -
I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
Jack Klugman -
When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Fat Joe -
You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
I'm not a negative person.
Ian Somerhalder
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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.
Damien Chazelle -
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings -
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.
Usher -
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.
Laura Anne Gilman -
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln -
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
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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.
Libba Bray -
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.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth -
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.
Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction -
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren -
I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.
Bill Griffith -
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.
Ayad Akhtar
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It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.
Jason Day -
At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world but upon a doll inside our head, the only woman who is always available in fact, the only one we shall ever possess, whom the arbitrary nature of memory, almost as absolute as that of the imagination, may have made as different from the real woman as the real Balbec had been from the Balbec I imagined- a dummy creation that little by little, to our own detriment, we shall force the real woman to resemble.
Marcel Proust -
Nobody wants to retire from football.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
e. e. cummings -
When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
Carol Burnett