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#1. It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.

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#2. As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.

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#3. I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

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#4. I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

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#5. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

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#6. When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

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#7. I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

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#8. I am just at tragedy right now.

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#9. I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

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#10. My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction.

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#11. I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

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#12. One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.

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#13. Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

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#14. When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

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#15. Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

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#16. Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

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#17. I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

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#18. I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

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#19. My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

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#20. I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

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#21. I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'

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#22. I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

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#23. I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

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#24. It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

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