Allison Silverman Quotes

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

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• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Time
  • Athlete
  • Just

• There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Always

• While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Age
  • Father
  • Education

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Day

• I will forever be proud to call myself a Bruin and will never forget the memories that were made here.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Forever

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Change

• You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Environment
  • Care
  • Healthy

• If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Very
  • Ride
  • Park

• Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Tragic

• I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Money
  • Single
  • Mom

• There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Like
  • Dance
  • Just

• Women face unique challenges in society, no doubt. But focusing narrowly on women as a special interest group isn't the winning play. The ability to pay your bills, send your kids to a good school, and keep your family safe are 'women's issues' after all.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Family

• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Women
  • Hair
  • Silly

• Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

  

  Clare Wright
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials.

  

  David Milch
  • Great
  • Different

• I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.

  

  John Matuszak
  • People
  • Shoes

• Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • Women
  • Jokes
  • Softer