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Lizz Winstead
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 5
Comedian
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.
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One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.
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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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We live in a nation where corporations are people.
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It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.
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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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Just talk about the issues that are impacting you and your friends.
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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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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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We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.
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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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Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
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Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.
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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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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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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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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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The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
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If you want to effect change, start small.
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