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Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I’ve devoted my life to trying to improve their lives.

Betty White

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It’s – but it all goes back to ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Golden Girls,’ all those – actors love to take the credit. We couldn’t do it without the writers.
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Actor Credit Love Lucky Myself Truth Writing
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
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Build Care Depression Dog Father Money Myself
The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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Movie Stardom Success Writing
Animal lover that I am, a cougar I am not.
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Animal Lover Myself
I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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Children Comedy Myself Strength
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He’s a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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Breed Career Dog Guide Myself Pet
Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, ‘Well, I’ll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.’ And it doesn’t work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.
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Children Dog Myself People Personal Responsibility
If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn’t work, you’re a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn’t sound great to me!
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Failure Greatness Myself Sound Work
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just – there wasn’t a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
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Children Funny Laughter Mom Myself
I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don’t appreciate it.
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Blessing Myself People Stand Start Wonderful
I have the backbone of an eel.
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Backbone Myself Strength
I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they’re spying on somebody who doesn’t know they’re looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously – you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.
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Camera Enjoyment Hide People Reaction Serious Yourself
I’m in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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Animal Book Myself Writing
Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.
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Animal Better Criticism Human Lying Myself
I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs all the time. That’s my exercise.
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Bad Exercise Home Memories Myself Time
I’m so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn’t choose to have children because I’m focused on my career. And I just don’t think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.
BETTY WHITE

Children Focus Management Myself Pregnant Thinking

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