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" I really enjoy connecting with the audience. "
Carol Burnett
Audience
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" I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh. "
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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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" It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington. "
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" I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? "
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" My first book was an open letter to my three daughters. "
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" Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing. "
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" Comedy is tragedy - plus time. "
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" I liked myself better when I wasn't me. "
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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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Make It Happen
Know
" I'm so happy with what has happened in my life. "
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Happened
My Life
" I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins. "
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Always
Cooking
" I'm not a person who likes to confront. "
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Person
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" I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. "
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Write
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" Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. "
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Adolescence
Big
Just
" Because nobody goes through life without a scar. "
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Life
Because
Without
" I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland. "
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Entertained
Betty
Garland
" My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. "
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Grandmother
Mother
Humor
" It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run. "
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Change
Great
Had
" When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS. "
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Contract
CBS
Left
" 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
" 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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Never
Job
Out
" 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 had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. "
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Quiet
Newspaper
High School
" Jimmy Stewart and Lucille Ball were so unique. "
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Jimmy
Were
Unique
" Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. "
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" I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. "
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Love
Writing
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