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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."
"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."
"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
"I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far."
"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
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"My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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