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" Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine. "
Sarah Silverman
Life
Someone
Men
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" I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion. "
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" I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage. "
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" I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman. "
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" I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core. "
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Some
Hard
Core
" I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night. "
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" In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch. "
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" The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17. "
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" Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it. "
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Black And White
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" Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world. "
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" As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. "
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Insecurities
Go
Bed
" Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill. "
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Skill
People
Humour
" I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show. "
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Like
Show
Started
" I remember when I got a part on 'Seinfeld' it was like an out of body experience, I was so excited. "
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Got
Body
Experience
" It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it. "
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Meaning
Powerful
Truth
" Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert. "
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Everyone
Alert
Course
" I really think everything is fair game. "
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Game
Fair
Everything
" When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach. "
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Acting
Coach
Out
" I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing. "
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Silhouette
Heart
Made
" My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life. "
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Life
My Life
Back
" Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts. "
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Stereotypes
Humor
People
" I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus. "
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Listening
Safety
Words
" I like my life alone. "
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Alone
Life
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" Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me. "
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Me
Smells
" I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games. "
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Quarter
Last
Games
" But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. "
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You
Enough
Think
" You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. "
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Whatever
You
" What are the chances there is a God, really? "
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God
Chances
Really
" I definitely think that prescription drugs, like antidepressants, are prescribed so cavalierly, anyone can get anything, but I need it. I do think that it needs to work hand and hand with therapy. "
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Need
Hand
Like
" I just think of myself as a comedian, really. "
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Just
Myself
" I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies. "
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Looking
Run
Sleep