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" I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer. "
Ellie Kemper
Food
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" I'm a little disappointed in myself because before getting pregnant, I resolved to do all these things during my pregnancy to nurse a healthy pregnancy. And so I'm finding in these final weeks that I didn't do any of them. "
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" I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty. "
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" I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show. "
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" I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running. "
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" In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them. "
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" A lot of people ask, 'What's the best advice Tina Fey's given you?' But she doesn't, like, go about doling out advice - like, 'I've got another tip for you!' "
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" I love coffee, but I have to make sure I don't have more than one cup a day because I'm already a little hyper. "
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" When you start feeling the baby kick, you realize there's a person inside, and that pregnancy is very different from having a person you're responsible for for the rest of your life. I don't know what I'm doing, but then I have to remind myself no parent does, right? "
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" I'm not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don't feel up to. It's not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don't know how people are able to manage that. I don't know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there. "
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" Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.' "
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Music
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" I'm a morning bird. I love getting up before it's light out if it's possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I'm an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day. "
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Good
Morning
Man
" I look forward to physical activity; it's a release from stress and a nice distraction. It puts me in a better mood. I never used to take classes before, but then I tore my plantar fascia so I couldn't run. I started taking SoulCycle classes, which I know are polarizing. People have strong opinions. Even though I can run again, I still go. "
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" Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise. "
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Age
Regret
Men
" A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them. "
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Rich
Beard
Energy
" My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint. "
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Teacher
Practice
You
" I have very sensitive skin, and so, whenever I can, I want to give it a rest. I'm, like, the moisturizing queen. "
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" New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America. "
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" I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised. "
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" 'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful. "
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" Improv is mostly what I've studied. "
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Mostly
Improv
" Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are tall and, you know, some women are short. "
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" I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself. "
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" If I don't do some sort of exercise in a day, I do get in a terrible mood. That's always been true. "
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" I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork. "
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" One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress. "
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" There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil Spector.' But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren't exactly funny. "
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" I wrote comedy sketches in college. "
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College
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" If I'm alone, I tend to cook for myself. I do a pretty good job of preparing healthful foods. My go-to is everything in a bowl like quinoa, avocado. Later in the day, scrambled eggs. I'm not a gourmet chef. I cook in bulk very well. "
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" It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy. "
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