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Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

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Lizz Winstead
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 5
Comedian
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Clown
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Nowadays everybody's a feminist - male, female, trans. Gender's so passé they don't even care anymore. They know what equal rights are, they know what it's about, and everybody is standing toe-to-toe strong about it and really fighting.
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Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing.
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The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.
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North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.
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I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.
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Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
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There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that's important or hard, and since I don't believe that, at some point there has to be a level of agree to disagree.
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People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.
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If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.
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We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.
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In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.
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By laughing, it helps take our power back.
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When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say Oh my god. Talk about it.
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You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.
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Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.
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I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.
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By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?
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There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.
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My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.
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Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to people who are sometimes buried in their own lives or are subjected to the bullshit that clinic workers are subjected to every day.
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