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" 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. "
Sarah Silverman
Life
My Life
Back
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" I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic. "
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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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" I like my life alone. "
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" You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it. "
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" The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. "
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Together
Career
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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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Down
Kind
" 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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Funny
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" The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17. "
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First
First Time
" I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself. "
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Myself
Love
" They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. "
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Got
Uncle
Trying
" 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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Grow
Myself
Race
" I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core. "
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Some
Hard
Core
" I do love the idea of ritual. I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic. "
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Love
Twice
" I just think of myself as a comedian, really. 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 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
" 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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Day
You
Sleep
" By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. "
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Live
Saturday
" 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
" 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
Black And White
Feelings
" I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me. "
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" 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
" If I have kids, I'll adopt. "
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Adopt
Kids
" I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. "
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Avoid
Offend
Out
" I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices. "
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Love
Choices
Alone
" 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
" You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage. "
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Whatever
You
" That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive. "
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" I just think of myself as a comedian, really. "
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Just
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