Paula Pell Quotes
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If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'
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Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.
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My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.
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I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.
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At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.
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Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.
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I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
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I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.
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I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
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When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.
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It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.
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I was always a bit of a class clown.
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I'm a plus-size person, so when I tried to go into the Gap, I used to just walk out of there shaking my head because they have nothing that fits me.
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All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.
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I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.
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I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.
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I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.
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Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.
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My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.