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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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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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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
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I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.
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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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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 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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