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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.
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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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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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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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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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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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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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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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 can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.
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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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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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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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I think we're here for each other.
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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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