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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us


Frances Hodgson Burnett

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LEO BURNETT When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mu...
LEO BURNETT Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ...
CAROL BURNETT Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
CAROL BURNETT If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing b...
LEO BURNETT We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hel...
LEO BURNETT It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by a...
CAROL BURNETT Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and...
LEO BURNETT I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to te...
CAROL BURNETT We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
CAROL BURNETT I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out ag...
CAROL BURNETT I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called &...
MARK BURNETT Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulati...
LEO BURNETT Without immigrants, we never would've built this place.
BILL BURNETT In 1955 we did have a strike in the mine at Gilman and boy, it was a wild time, we had lots of fight...
BILL BURNETT Without immigrants, we never would've built this place. There were about 100 Japanese here that rais...
BILL BURNETT It goes back a ways, I've seen changes in the town.
BILL BURNETT Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies...
MARK BURNETT Our pitching has definitely carried us. All three go out and compete and give a chance to win on mos...
ASHLEY BURNETT We're in a good position, but we still have to go out there and compete. At least this gives us an o...
ASHLEY BURNETT It's a different identity to itself because everybody's record is zero. I think we played as well as...
ASHLEY BURNETT Right now it's just fun. We're just playing the game and having fun.
ASHLEY BURNETT It's been like that all year long. It's been a different guy every game, who gets a big hit here, a ...
ASHLEY BURNETT No matter how well you hit, you're going to face good pitching in the playoffs. So you've got to hav...
ASHLEY BURNETT If we can go through those (games) playing good, solid baseball, I think we've got a chance to go pr...
ASHLEY BURNETT (The Panthers) weren't able to throw their No. 1 or No. 2 guys, but not to take away anything from m...
ASHLEY BURNETT Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
CAROL BURNETT The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants,...
LEO BURNETT Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
LEO BURNETT My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a ...
CAROL BURNETT My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-roo...
CAROL BURNETT Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You ca...
MARK BURNETT The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is mo...
LEO BURNETT 'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponso...
MARK BURNETT She suffered. She suffered a whole lot. And at one point I was praying for her to be released. You k...
CAROL BURNETT When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go
CAROL BURNETT She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I...
CAROL BURNETT People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate grati...
CAROL BURNETT I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT She said, 'Mama, if I can take it back ...,
CAROL BURNETT