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" Bravery is the engine of change. "
Change
Bravery
Engine
" Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly. "
Yourself
Look
Fun
" Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to. "
Great
Opportunity
School
" For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband. "
Love
Say
Children
" I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren't critical. "
Goals
Am
I Am
" I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it. "
World
Business
Choose
" I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. "
Until
Car
Motorcycle
" I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this awesome 'Halo: Reach' backpack. Usually, when you get stuff like that, it either ends up in the garage or going to charity. But I walk around with that 'Halo: Reach' backpack all the time, and I drink out of my 'Halo: Reach' bottle every day. "
Walk
You
Day
" I love fashion, and I love how it makes me feel, but it doesn't rule my life. "
Fashion
Feel
Life
" I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits. "
Some
Back
Wait
" I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies. "
Gamer
Twitch
Think
" I'm, like, a binge gamer. "
Gamer
Binge
Like
" I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy. "
Like
Best
Busy
" I think, like most gamers, I talk a good game. "
Talk
Like
Think
" I was like, 'I want us to stop using that term. I'm not a 'girl gamer.' I'm just a gamer.' The reasons I love gaming are the same reasons everyone loves gaming. "
Girl
Want
Stop
" I was this weird little bookish giant. "
Weird
Giant
Little
" I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today. "
School
Classmates
Two
" Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. "
Marriage
Just
Selfish
" My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. "
Clothes
Black
Cool
" One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies. "
Movies
Road
Warrior
" People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future. "
Science
People
Future
" Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. "
Failure
Persistence
Success
" The more people who come forward and talk about how much they love gaming, how much they talk about individuality and diversity, the more gamers of color that come out and gay gamers that come out and everybody talking about what they love - that's what the community has in common: a love of gaming. "
Diversity
Community
Love
" When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned. "
Slow
Stone
Me
" Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough. "
You
Wounds
Make
" You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on. "
Shoes
Women
Good
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