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" When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged. "
Carol Burnett
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" I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy. "
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" I'm so happy with what has happened in my life. "
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" 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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" 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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" Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell. "
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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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" We don't stop going to school when we graduate. "
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" In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door. "
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" I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. "
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" I eat very well, and I do Pilates. "
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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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" I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.' "
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