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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. "
Carol Burnett
Arts
Studying
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" What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters. "
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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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" It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run. "
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" I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will. "
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" On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing. "
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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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" When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. "
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" Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. "
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" It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington. "
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" I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows. "
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Show
" I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever. "
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Whatever
" I eat very well, and I do Pilates. "
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Well
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" I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. "
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Mother
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" Comedy is tragedy - plus time. "
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Tragedy
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" I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice. "
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Who
Always
Doing
" I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do. "
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I Am
Stand-Up
" Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant. "
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He
Brilliant
Body
" My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. "
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Grandmother
Mother
Humor
" I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry. "
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Sit
Smile
Wave
" My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know? "
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Doing
You
Week
" If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all. "
Carol Burnett
Room
Funniest
Go
" I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time. "
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TV
Time
Be Different
" I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. "
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Love
Writing
Loved
" 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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Listen
Jokes
Tell
" My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. "
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Week
Grandmother
Movies
" When I went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen. "
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Make
Never
New
" Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant. "
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Think
Brilliant
I Think
" I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas. "
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Texas
Grandmother
Born
" My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away. "
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Diet
Eat
I Can
" Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids. "
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YouTube
Mail
College