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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.

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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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 don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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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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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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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
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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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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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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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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 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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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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