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Carol Burnett Quotes

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: April 26, 1933

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Good You Student Kind Shy Will

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

People Problems America Know Racial

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

Time Long Long Time First Sit Move

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

Would Candidate Rather NAACP Than

The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.

Crazy Black Genius White Mad Old

Eat all the junk food you want - as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it'll be less junky, and you won't eat it every day because it's a lot of work.

Work Food Day Yourself Long You

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.

Montel Williams

Back Over Used Heavy Weight Very

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

Brendan Gleeson

Joy Me Possibilities You Wonder

Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

Music People Play Why Everyday Own

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.

Mathematics Language Logic You Find

As a screenwriter, you have to let go, and you have to hand your baby over and let it go off into the world, which is entirely appropriate.

Philippa Boyens

Baby World You Go Hand Let Go

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

Sea Imagination Me Impact Meeting

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Patience Business Learn You About

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