"I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny."

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Source : "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

Downtown Julie Brown

#Stress Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.”
“Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.”
“A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”
“You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place.”
“My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.”
“While we can generalize when describing a given medium as hot or cool, all media can be said to possess both hot and cool aspects to varying degrees, and part of what I try to do with comics is figure out when and how the temperature needs raising or lowering.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.”
“Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.”

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