QUOTES by Carol Burnett
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"I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry."
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"I was raised going to the movies with my grandmother as a kid. And then I'd come home, and my best friend and I would act out the films that we saw."
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"My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story."
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"I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me."
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"I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism."
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"I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that."
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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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"Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that."
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"You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn."
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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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"Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that."
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"You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn."
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"When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen."
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"I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it."
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"When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh."
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"It's not a bad thing to be able to do many things onstage. If you're an entertainer, you should be able to entertain. I'm proud to say that I'm not a one-trick pony."
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"I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts."
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"I never felt cynical, and I never felt that I couldn't do what I wanted to do."
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"I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper."
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"My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen."
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"When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come in and say, "Stop that, nothing will ever come of it!"
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"I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there."
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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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"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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"We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted."
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"Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head."
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