#w

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain? ↗

— Billie Burke

#complain #head #i #keep #laugh

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town. ↗

— Delta Burke

#come #had #i #just #like

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look. ↗

— Delta Burke

#books #drama #drama school #fabulous #go

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#laws #sort #tyranny #worst

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#bad #bad stuff #game #impair #never

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#classification #continuity #corresponding #degree #different

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#choice #great #great president #i #man

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#few #great #men #never #occupies

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#after #also #because #been #feel

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#called #came #guess #i #i came