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Hannah Gadsby Quotes

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: australian
Birth: January 12, 1978

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Community Time Think Genius Artist

I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.

Good Live Think Feel Choose Become

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

Love Grateful People Small Texas Up

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

Walk Past Door Someone Phone Ring

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

Car You Emotions Race Through Going

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.

Beautiful America Heaven More Things

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

Work Together People Me Cry Where

I like hot people being hot. How else do you explain my high school infatuation with Ricky Martin in all his shirtless glory?

Phoebe Robinson

School People High School You Glory

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

Family School College Go First Side

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

Together Yourself People You House

I don't have a regular happy family like most people. My parents are separated; my dad married someone else and so did my mom. All my siblings are from my parents' other marriages. So yes, it is complicated, and I don't like talking about it or explaining this to everybody. But all this doesn't stop us from being close to each other.

Family Happy Parents People Mom Yes

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.

Thomas Friedman

Hate Book America Country Go Way

It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what I brought to the show.

Thought Clothes Ring More Casual Up

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