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“I like big songs that feel quite upbeat, the songs that people love - me singing them, less so.”
“My stepdad makes me laugh constantly reading things out from the paper or getting worked up about a lady from a local group who won't answer the phone in enough ring time. Last time I went home - he was swearing at a bag of carrots. And quite rightly it turns out - they were the wrong type of carrots.”
“We had a neighbour in Ramsgate called Bill and he was the kindest old man you ever did meet. We loved Bill. He gave my brother a kids' tool set and my brother could not believe his luck.”
“You can't tell how experienced a comedian is by how light they travel. An established comic who I love, Lucy Pearman, wheeled up to the Edinburgh Fringe with two huge suitcases and a bike. One contained just props.”
“My friend had breast cancer and I came with her to the operation. We were taking funny pictures of her in her gown and goofing about. All things told, it was a great day out.”
“Everyone loves magic.”
“When you're a kind person at your core it comes out in the little ways.”
“Well I have porridge every morning but that's just because I don't want to get to be a big old unit.”
“By the time I was 25, I was a full-on neg head - and not in a funny way, either.”
“Sometimes I buy a fun cereal and let me tell you - the night before I go to bed a little bit excited.”
“When I was 25, it was not like I was in a war zone or a hospice. I had a colourful backstory, but lots of people had it way worse.”
“Cheese and dairy is all part of the same industry so it's good to be vegetarian but you're still contributing to the same life of suffering by eating diary.”
“We are all human. We've all done despicable things. If you haven't been amassing embarrassment you've been not taking enough risks in life.”
“Mistakes can be funny. I drove a car into a bollard and it was pretty amusing because it was while I was showing off that I was a really good driver.”
“Saying you like Tina Fey is like saying you like the sky - everyone likes the sky.”
“Throughout my life I've given people unsolicited advice. I once gave someone a four-page word document on how to think more positively and if anything, it made her more negative.”
“In '30 Rock,' Fey doesn't deny gender stereotypes, but covers them in such a way that it's not gender speaking, but the individual.”
“No-one said it was a fair world but then if you have to fight harder, it makes you better.”
“Like a lot of kids, when I was really young, I was overjoyed with life. Dancing, prancing and mucking about.”
“If you're truly accepting of something, you don't need other people to be.”