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"I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material."
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"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own."

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."

"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."

"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."

"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."

"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."

"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."

"The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years."
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"Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it."

"A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid."

"I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me."

"Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine."

"I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material."

"They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India."

"I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times."

"I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ."
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