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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.
Carol Burnett
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Carol Burnett
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: April 26
Actress
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Carol Creighton Burnett
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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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I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
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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 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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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.
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I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.
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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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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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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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No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.
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I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
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