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" It all happened the way it was supposed to. I wouldn't change anything. I had such a great run. "
Carol Burnett
Change
Great
Had
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" Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. "
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Life
" 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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" I liked myself better when I wasn't me. "
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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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Write
Up
" Because nobody goes through life without a scar. "
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Life
Because
Without
" 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
" Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell. "
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Scream
Good
Body
" Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. "
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Famous
Celebrity
Long
" I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland. "
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Entertained
Betty
Garland
" 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. "
Carol Burnett
Losing
Lawyers
Legal
" I had always been quiet and studious in school. I was the high school editor of the newspaper. "
Carol Burnett
Quiet
Newspaper
High School
" I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany. "
Carol Burnett
Voice
Had
Good
" It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. "
Carol Burnett
Kindness
Selfish
Help Others
" 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. "
Carol Burnett
Stars
Time
Today
" I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time. "
Carol Burnett
TV
Time
Be Different
" Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. "
Carol Burnett
Words
Own
Once
" I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever. "
Carol Burnett
Like
Your
Whatever
" I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite. "
Carol Burnett
Happy
Law
Fun
" 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. "
Carol Burnett
Long
Watch
Want
" I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax. "
Carol Burnett
Great
Whole
Wax
" When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?' "
Carol Burnett
Laugh
Thought
College
" I loved doing 'The Family' with Eunice and Mama. They were very interesting because there were no jokes written into those sketches. It was all character-driven. And sometimes it got a little heavy. "
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Doing
Family
Loved
" 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
" I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map. "
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Off
Show
Me
" I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that! "
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Did
Bad
Breaking
" 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. "
Carol Burnett
Sit
Good
Kitchen
" You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself. "
Carol Burnett
You
Walk
Know
" Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. "
Carol Burnett
You
Welfare
Texas