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Laura van den Berg Quotes

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

Laura van den Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1983

Topics

Experience Early White Contemporary

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

Job Think You Come And Go Go Done

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Michael Chertoff

Alone Pain Mistake People Suffering

The only thing I fear is when people say, 'I should go to the theatre more.' I say, 'We should create work that makes you not have a choice.'

Work Fear People Theatre You Choice

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

Amanda Lindhout

Life Day Compassion Peace Death War

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Writing Emotion Fiction Much Goes

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

Fade Things Stay Visual Sounds Put

I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place to write comedy from. I didn't feel allegiance to anything. I didn't have working-class pride or upper-class superiority.

Good Pride Feel Comedy Place Edge

Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.

Sorry Idiot Thoughtful Person Rude

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

Money Parents Think London My Own

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Life Strong Conscience Guide Allow

When you feel good, you look good. And vice versa: When you look good, you feel good.

Christie Brinkley

Good Feel Good Feel You Look Vice

I have - and always will - stand up against efforts to limit a woman's right to choose.

Woman Stand Up Stand Choose Limit

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