"Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.”
“Instead of playing the game "Making Life Wonderful", we often play the game called "Who's Right". Do you know that game? It's a game where everybody loses.”
“When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side.”
“Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.”
“I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.”
“I'm not a stunning woman.”
“I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.”
“When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.”

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