Bresha Webb Quotes
It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
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If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.
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When I finally began to publish, my father never read my work. He'd say, 'Oh, that's your mother's sort of thing.' But my mother found the books rather upsetting. I figure she read just enough to know that she didn't want to go there.
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It's just been a lot of hard work and lot of auditions. A lot of ups and downs, but a lot of ups, and I'm really happy for my downs, too. I'm really thankful.
