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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.
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 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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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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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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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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I think we're here for each other.
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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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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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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 don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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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 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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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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If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
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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 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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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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