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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
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Carol Creighton Burnett
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People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.
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You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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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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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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What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.
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But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
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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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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
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As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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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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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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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 the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
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