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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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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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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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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.
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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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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 had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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'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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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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I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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