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" All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think. "
Nikki Glaser
Life
My Life
People
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" College is good discipline. That's what I learned there: pull an all-nighter, get it done, and get an A. I'm the biggest procrastinator, and I learned how to be an efficient procrastinator. "
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Good
Pull
Done
" I wasn't a good-looking child. I got screwed out of the genetic deal. My sister looks like a model. I think that's why I'm a comic. I'm deeply insecure, since I was always feeling ugly. I wasn't a healthy child. I had poor self-esteem. That's why I need people's approval. "
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Sister
People
Child
" Why am I sharing this part of my life when it opens me up to judgment? But part of me wants to share that part of my life because I think non-monogamy is a normal thing for human beings to want. "
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Want
Think
Sharing
" I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'. "
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Enough
Early
Grateful
" I remember thinking years ago about getting a half special, 'When you get that, that will be it. That will be all you need to feel validated in this world.' I feel like that special was just another set. "
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Thinking
Remember
You
" I remember the 'Jenny McCarthy Show' being kind of funny, and I remember her being just like one of the boys. I remember her being counter to everything I thought girls should be on TV, or whatever. I kind of liked her vibe. "
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Funny
Her
Thought
" A lot of being a woman in this business is about how you look... That's not why we're even in this business; that's not what people want from us. We're valuable because we're funny and because we have a voice and a point of view. "
Nikki Glaser
Funny
People
Voice
" I went and hung out at a foot fetish party, and I knew that was a very popular fetish to have, but I didn't realize how amazing it would be to have it. "
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Party
How
Foot
" I won't tackle something like furries, because there's nothing new to say. Also, I won't do anything that I think will put my life at risk. "
Nikki Glaser
Say
Risk
Life
" My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman. "
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Know
Me
Proud
" The best stuff - the most interesting stuff - usually happens when I allow myself to be in the moment and working from that space. "
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Moment
Space
Best
" I knew what I wanted to do, so I was constantly working on material once I got to KU. "
Nikki Glaser
Got
Knew
Material
" I have to say that it's fun to write for young girls, and it's exciting to know that we're influencing them and they're looking at us like, 'I want to grow up and be like them.' I mean, I just made up the person saying that. "
Nikki Glaser
Say
Saying
Fun
" I'm not a bleeding-heart feminist, but I do like to call out that stuff in my act. It's nice when you find a perspective that no one has hit on. "
Nikki Glaser
Like
You
Perspective
" Jimmy Fallon's strengths are that he's fun, and he's good at impressions, and he's musically inclined. And my strength is that I'm a joke writer, but I also have no filter, and I think that that's not a talent per se, but it's just a thing about myself that I have found that people like about what I do. "
Nikki Glaser
Strength
Good
Myself
" I'm sure I've already made some mistakes that I'll wish I could take back. "
Nikki Glaser
Mistakes
Sure
Take
" We just learned about this fetish where guys just give women money and know that they are spending their money. It's not like a sugar daddy thing. It's like financial domination, or something like that. These guys just want to give you money. "
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Money
Financial
Want
" Funny is funny. If it's funny enough to women, it will be funny to men. I think that's been proven by Broad City and Amy Schumer. They're killing it. "
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Enough
Women
Think
" Rob Thomas loves nothing more than for couples to go on dates, and he loves chocolates. Boxes of 20 chocolates. "
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Couples
More
Go
" Up until recently, I've said, 'I don't notice the sexism in the industry.' "
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Said
Up
Sexism
" I like putting myself in uncomfortable situations. "
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Situations
Uncomfortable
Like
" My logic used to be if I get angry at my boyfriend, he could say, 'Well, if that thing I do that I don't want to stop doing makes you mad, I don't need to be with you. Bye!' And then he'd leave me. Forever. "
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Logic
You
Need
" I like guys with a sense of humor who smile a lot and are kind. "
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Humor
Smile
Like
" I'm learning that if you put yourself out there and make fun of yourself first, it really does work. People can't really make fun of you. "
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Work
People
Learning
" The first place I ever performed was at CU Boulder. I went there my freshman year and discovered stand-up after my friends talked me into signing up for a showcase on campus. "
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Me
First
Place
" I love what I do, but living in one place for an entire year and not being on the road constantly was glorious. The road lifestyle is not ideal for a woman who's about to be thirty. "
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Living
Love
Place
" It strikes me as pretty interesting and cool how girls support each other in this business. I've never felt so much support in my life than from my fellow female comedians. I attribute much of my success to some of them. "
Nikki Glaser
Success
Life
Cool
" People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of. "
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Ignorant
People
Understand
" I've talked about my relationship without consulting my boyfriend about whether or not he wants that talked about, and I've also taken a story that has happened with us and, for comedic purposes, exaggerated it or changed it in some way that made him look not great. "
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Relationship
Great
Way
" I nannied for a couple of months. The kids were super-funny; it made me wish I grew up in a comedy household. But nannying is demoralizing. I'm just not cut out for it. "
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Just
Comedy
Kids