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Jay Asher Quotes

I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1975

Topics

Humor Think Talking You Serious

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

Life Feel My Life Doing Old Naked

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

Quality Poetry Writing Start Walking

We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

Marriage Equality Society Think Down

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

Yourself People Me You Will Always

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

Sprague Grayden

Life Think Interesting My Life Doing

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

Home Roads People Me Guitar Play

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Yourself Anger Me Comedy You Kind

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Live Mess Here Excuse

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

Funny Myself Day Me Walking Talking

I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.

Proud Care Involved Still Very Them

I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

Life My Life Tennis Stage Where Got

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

You Skill Skills Say Never Always

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