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I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
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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'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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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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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 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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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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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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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 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 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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No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.
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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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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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I think we're here for each other.
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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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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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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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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
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