Ellie Kemper Quotes

#1. When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.

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#2. I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.

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#3. Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

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#4. I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

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#5. My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

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#6. Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

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#7. I can't do impressions.

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#8. You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

Mother Teresa

#9. I think weather affects my mood a lot more than I thought, and I like to be in bad moods sometimes.

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#10. When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.

Epictetus

#11. I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

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#12. Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.

Umberto Eco

#13. New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

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#14. One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.

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#15. If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

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#16. Improv is mostly what I've studied.

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#17. Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

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#18. When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Maya Angelou

#19. In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.

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#20. I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

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#21. That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.

Matthew Tindal

#22. I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

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#23. I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.

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#24. I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.

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#25. Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.

Nicholas Negroponte