"Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp."

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Source : "Comedian Jessi Klein Plays Not My Job Listen". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 8, 2011.

Jessi Klein

#Art Quotes #College Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.”
“part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.”
“I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. It's sort of freeing: I can say I'm abandoning this thing that I hate forever and I'm moving on to something that's good. I'll find that I'll go back to [the other project] in a day or a week and like it again. But that moment of wanting to trash something -- that Virginia Woolf moment when you have to be stopped from filling your pocket with stones -- comes pretty regularly for me. Switching is probably a good thing.”
“If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.”
“Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.”
“I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.”
“The greatest single programming language ever designed”
“What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!”

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