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" I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?' "
Scott Thompson
My Life
Time
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" My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity. "
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" You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in. "
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" I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really. "
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" I won't play a teenager. "
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" I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted. "
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Career
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" This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things. "
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Five
Different
" When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction. "
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" If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work. "
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" Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. "
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Teaching
How
Punch
" A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho. "
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Super
Men
Delusion
" When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. "
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" Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. "
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Places
Sharp
Edges
" Comedy is actually very macho driven. "
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Actually
Very
" When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me. "
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Want
Everything
Said
" Writing is a difficult thing. "
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Writing
Difficult
Difficult Thing
" Art is difficult. "
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Difficult
Art
" I guess chemistry is just another word for love. "
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Word
Just
Guess
" I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges. "
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Pick
Honest
Flower
" The gay male is always going to be at the bottom. "
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Always
Gay
Male
" I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor. "
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Less
Humor
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" Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' "
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Up
Look
Light
" In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke. "
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France
Cool
Think
" I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy. "
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Nerd
Total
Fantasy
" People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. "
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People
Listen
Lecture
" I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. "
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West
Crisis
Masculinity
" My theory is that comedy comes from little people. "
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Comedy
Little
" We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well. "
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Unique
Embrace
Confident
" I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things. "
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