Heather Doerksen Quotes
I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.
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Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
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When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice. He was appearing on 'Late Night', on 'The Tonight Show', had some commercials out there, his voice of observational comedy, looking at the world around him, that voice was really starting to come into its own.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
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I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.
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It's a young man's game - standup comedy.
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Dan Curry is the funniest guy in the world. I can sit in a room with him for hours, and he's just cracking me up constantly. And Kitao is the next Terry Gilliam. A lot of comedy directors are just comedic writers, but they don't have any sense of aesthetic or visual vocabulary.
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Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
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We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.
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The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.
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My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
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In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
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Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'
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When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it's really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.
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I know my soul is beautiful; I know I'm a good person. And that will never change for me.
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I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.
