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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. Comedy is tragedy plus time. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. I liked myself better when I wasn't me. This is to explain just how your mom turned out to be the kind of hairpin she is. We didn't exactly starve, but we were pretty poor when I was growing up. I remember thinking, Oh gosh, if I could just make thirty dollars a month to help with the rent, that would be fabulous. So perhaps I envied performers when I heard that Bing Crosby made twenty dollars a minute. 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. Short biography at Famous Texans web pagecarol burnett
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