Paula Pell Quotes
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It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.
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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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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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Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.
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I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
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I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
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I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
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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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When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.
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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 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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I was always a bit of a class clown.
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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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It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.
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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 was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.
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Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.
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I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.
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My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.