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Paula Poundstone (35)

Birth:	29th December, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian

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• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder – which everyone has, to some degree – and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Conversation

• I talk to a lot of librarians, and there’s always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently – and just in the nick of time – refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.

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• I love key lime pie, although it’s never made the proper way.

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• I have jokes I’ve told before and will tell again, but my favorite part of the night is talking to the crowd.

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• I have a very silly sense of humor. I’ve never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

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  Tags in Never

• I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

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• I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the ‘Three Stooges’ were geniuses. They’d have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

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• I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I’ve learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

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• I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

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  Tags in Music, Need

• I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

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  Tags in Audition, Comedy

• I can make things, but I don’t cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I’m too absentminded.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Never, Hard Work

• I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don’t know why some places say ‘with anchovies.’ If you’re making a proper Caesar salad, it’s going to have anchovies.

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• I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

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• I only do two things in my life, and that’s take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out.

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  Tags in Kids

• How do you come back? It’s one step at a time. I’m optimistic because I don’t know what else to be.

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  Tags in Time

• I used to watch ‘The Waltons’ and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.

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• I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television.

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• I’m really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.

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• I’m thankful for Sarah Palin’s vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

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• My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

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