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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. "
Sarah Silverman
Grow
Myself
Race
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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 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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" I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. "
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" 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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People
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" I do love the idea of ritual. "
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Love
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" It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head. "
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Shoes
Walk
" 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
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" What are the chances there is a God, really? "
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Really
" I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core. "
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Some
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" 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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Think
Way
Funny
" 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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You
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" I like my life alone. "
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Life
My Life
" If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny. "
Sarah Silverman
Offended
You
Saying
" By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. "
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Night
Live
Saturday
" I had a lot of depression as a kid. "
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Kid
Lot
Had
" I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself. "
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You
Myself
Love
" 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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Family
Laugh
Clown
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Sarah Silverman
Looking
Run
Sleep
" 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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Before
Teeth
Twice
" Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies. "
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Growing Up
Loved
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" I just think of myself as a comedian, really. "
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" But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. "
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You
Enough
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" 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
" Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts. "
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Stereotypes
Humor
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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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Writing
Down
Kind
" Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert. "
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Alert
Course
" 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
" If I have kids, I'll adopt. "
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Adopt
Kids