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Carol Burnett Inspirational Quotes (39)

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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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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.
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In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.
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If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.
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You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
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I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.
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It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.
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there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
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I think we're here for each other.
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.
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Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
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