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Carol Burnett Quotes

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

Carol Burnett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.

Jessye Norman

Work Good Daily Parents Earth Said

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I Am Someone Camera Sex Forget Same

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

Matt Holliday

Great Job Parents Me Think Thought

My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Mother War World Resistance She Who

A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

John Updike

World Christian Describe Tries

Freddie Gray was a story I followed closer than others, for whatever reason, in this larger narrative of police brutality.

Stephen Malkmus

Police Story Others Gray Reason

Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness.

Robin Sloan

Life Time Darkness Interesting Long

Where I come from, it's a little bit like England. We start from the theater, and we do films a bit on our free time. The history of making films in Scandinavia is so old, it's like the oldest. The Nordic film industry started before Hollywood in Stockholm in Copenhagen.

Michael Nyqvist

History Time Start Free Hollywood

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.

Minnie Pearl

Experience Remember Hawaii I Can

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

Chris Burke

Be Different Same Different Would

I don't listen to the radio.

Poo Bear

Listen Radio

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Swami Sivananda

Progress Spiritual Tranquility Real