American - Comedian | March 24, 1971 -
I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year.
Tig Notaro
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I think that people are going to think of me however they want to think of me, whether it's female or gay or cancer or funny or unfunny.
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People don't talk about small-town racism in Illinois or upstate New York. They're like, 'It's the South.' And it is. It's there. But it's everywhere. But everywhere, there are also amazing people.
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I knew there was no Santa when I was, like, 5.
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I want to be silly, and that's being authentic just as much as being open and honest. It's authentic to make weird clown horn noises when it strikes you.
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I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.
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Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.
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The hardest lesson to learn always is to just have faith in that you will always have something to say or a story to tell. I have faith that I'll be able to continue to tell stories, write and tell stories. You just need to keep going at it.
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As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
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I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'
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Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.
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I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.
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