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Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.

Books are humanity in print.

Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.

People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough.

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

Heather is the first interviewer to have ever caught me off guard. She has a razor sharp mind and a demeanor that could make her the next Barbara Walters.

I think most people realize that Barbara and Jenna are college kids, and to make such a big deal out of it is a bit ridiculous. At least now, the press has stopped.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli OHara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

I like fighters. That's why I love Russ Feingold. I love Barbara Boxer. And Howard Dean and John Conyers. Democrats I talk to around the country want their leaders to come out and fight for them.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.