Jessi Klein quotes
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“Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.”
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“Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.”
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“Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.”
-- Jessi KleinSource : "Comedian Jessi Klein Plays Not My Job Listen". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 8, 2011.
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“I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.”
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“O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me”
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Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
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“Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.”
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“People don't know how to talk about being depressed - that it's totally okay to feel sad.”
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