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"I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace."
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"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"
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"You don't build a family by tearing down another one."
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"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues."
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"You will never realize how precious a baby is until she keeps you awake through the whole night."
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"There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father."
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"Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home."
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"I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue."
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"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
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"I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace."
Family
"I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about."
Life
"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."
People
"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."
Death
"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."
Funny
"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."
Expectation
"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."
Trying
"People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue."
Father
"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
Mother
"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."
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