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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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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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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One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
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If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
