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" Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K. "

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" I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her. "

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" You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.' "

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" When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning. "

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