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There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.Carol Burnett
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Dance, dance for me Dance with the stars Laugh, laugh for me Wherever you are Sing, sing out loud Like angels do Remember me The way I'll remember you Love, love for me With all your soul Cry, cry for me As I grow old See, see me from the edge of Heaven's eye Feel for me 'cause feelings never die I'll remember you My very special friend Until we meet again( By Carrie Hamilton, Carol Burnett's daughter) .Carol Burnett
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.Carol Burnett
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.Carol Burnett
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.Carol Burnett
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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.Carol Burnett
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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.Carol Burnett
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My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.Carol Burnett
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.Carol Burnett
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We don't stop going to school when we graduate.Carol Burnett
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Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.Carol Burnett
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.Carol Burnett
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.Carol Burnett
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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
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I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.Carol Burnett
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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.Carol Burnett
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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
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My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.Carol Burnett
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.Carol Burnett
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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.Carol Burnett
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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.Carol Burnett
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Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.Carol Burnett
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Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.Carol Burnett
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.Carol Burnett
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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.Carol Burnett
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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
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I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry.Carol Burnett
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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