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Being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.
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You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms — a serious good person.
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The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
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Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
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I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.
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The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.
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Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it.
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I learn things from watching and listening to people. I'm not much of a reader; I'm slightly dyslexic.
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The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
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I'm not going to throw my imagination away. I refuse to lie down to expectation. If I can just hold out till I'm thirty, I'll be incredible.
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My work is often thought of as lightweight commercial comedy and I have always thought, No, you don't understand: this is in fact a political act.
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The problem with writing plays is that everyone has an opinion. And you don't want those opinions. You want people to say I love you no matter what.
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
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Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
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I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.
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Anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play.
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I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.
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Feminism has affected me more in my writing than in a specifically political way. Sitting down to write a play that has three parts for women over forty, I think, is political.
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Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.
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Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
October 18, 1950
Died:
January 30, 2006
(aged 55)
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