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" If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move. "
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" We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy. "
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" We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. "
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" I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. "
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" For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why. "
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" I grew up in a very conservative home. "
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" If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. "
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" I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling. "
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" Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. "
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" Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay. "
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" I didn't grow up in a house - we moved a lot, and we always lived in apartments. But we looked a lot; we went to open houses almost every weekend. I think that's why I always wanted a house. "
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" I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. "
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" I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them. "
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" I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the love in my life. "
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" I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me. "
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