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" My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping. "
Rita Rudner
Only
Mother
Buried
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" I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.' "
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" I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. "
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" Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. "
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" Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. "
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" I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you perceive to be a comedy rhythm, you will get laughs sooner, but you will not be unique. "
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Start
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" If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good. "
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" Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? "
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" I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. "
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Ear
" I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. "
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Me
Pleased
" They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one. "
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Very
Bank
" Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence. "
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Independence
Done
" Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. "
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Marriage
Men
" I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable. "
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Too Much
Conversation
" I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet. "
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Ears
Grow
" I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. "
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Medical
Going
" The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. "
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Man
Over
" I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh. "
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You
Want
" When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third. "
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You
Basics
First
" I have to visualise my jokes, live my jokes, feel the audience because every audience is different. It's like having a different dancing partner every night. "
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Night
Partner
" Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before. "
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Mother
Taste
Most
" It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. "
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Rest
Find
Great
" I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it. "
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Dancing
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" I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience. "
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Me
" The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down. "
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Gym
" We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet. "
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Dog
" Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. "
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Them
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" Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? "
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God
" I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. "
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