Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, for CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. (Click here for full Wikipedia article)
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
I think we're here for each other.
It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
No one ever said life was fair. Just eventful.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The audience is never wrong.
We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.
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.
You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.
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(April 26 is also the birthday of Bernard Malamud and Ludwig Wittgenstein.)
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