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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. "
Carol Burnett
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" 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?' "
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" My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved. "
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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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" 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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" We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted. "
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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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" 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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" I come from Texas, and my grandmother and mother were born in Arkansas. "
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" I have a great memory. "
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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 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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" 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 went to New York to try and make it, I never thought it wouldn't happen. "
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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've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that. "
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" I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? "
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