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" A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins. "
Lot
" Books are challenging and inspirational to me. "
Challenging
Books
Me
" But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty. "
Ugly
Always
Like
" David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends. "
Growing
Friends
Best
" I always find something to keep me busy. "
Keep
Always
Busy
" I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school. "
Girl
School
Good
" If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun. "
Creating
Fun
Have Fun
" I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good. "
Nice
Good
Looks
" I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life. "
Always
Bunny
Rest
" I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it. "
Because
You
Out
" I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination. "
Poverty
Like
Imagination
" I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen. "
Thanksgiving
Night
Doing
" I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash. "
Like
Public
Cash
" I live in the moment. "
Moment
Live
" I'm always more attracted to the unattractive. "
More
Unattractive
Always
" I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color. "
Camel
Whole
Color
" I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn. "
End
People
Home
" I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up. "
You
Weird
Think
" It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high. "
High
Cult
Show
" I wasn't a cliquey person, and I think that's because I came from a large family. I got along with everybody, and I usually got along with the people that people didn't like. "
Got
Like
People
" My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market. "
Handmade
Things
Story
" My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there. "
Fall
Eye
Kitchen
" People who shop in health food stores never look healthy. "
Healthy
Who
People
" They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean? "
Way
Own
Mean
" Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. "
New
New Orleans
Great
" You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. "
Small
Remember
Character
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