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there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
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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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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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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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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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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I think we're here for each other.
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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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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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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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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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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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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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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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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 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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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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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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