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The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.

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Lizz Winstead
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 5
Comedian
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Alienated
Empowered
Realize
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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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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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Commit a little bit more to the world outside of your own life. Get people talking.
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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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It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.
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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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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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Just talk about the issues that are impacting you and your friends.
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The fact is, there's no such thing as The Age of Abstinence.
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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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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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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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Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.
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You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.
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By laughing, it helps take our power back.
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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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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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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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