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Stories appeal to humanity.
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Appeal
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I'm a pretty good procrastinator.
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Pretty Good
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The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.
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Art World
Exist
Vacuum
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#MeToo should not be limited to art or TV.
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Tv
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
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Accountants
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I always kept my expectations in life very tame.
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Expectations
Tame
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I've got Asperger's. I come at things from sideways.
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Sideways
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Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not homophobic.
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Homophobic
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That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
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Adhd
Bored
Focus
Problem
The Problem With
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The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.
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Distressing
Sheer
Unconscious
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The idea that standup is a thing with defined boundaries is kind of ludicrous.
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Boundaries
Defined
Ludicrous
Standup
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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Space
Brain
Busy
Cadet
Daydreamer
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A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.
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Doubt
Me People Mother
Mothers
Me People Doubt
Seriously
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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Criticism
Revered
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Just because it's been around for centuries, doesn't mean it's cool to be a creepy old man.
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Creepy
Old Man
Centuries
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To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized.
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Recognized
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Electrician
Nurse
Real
Skills
Doctor
Date
Celebrity
Tailor
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We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.
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Wisdom
Older Women
Resilience
Wealth
Silenced
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Conversation
No Idea
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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Australian
Documentaries
Art Great Always
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Display
Shortcomings
Weirdness
Expose
Platform
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A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.
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Toxic
Trauma
Trusted
Experienced
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I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.
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Constant
Exhausting
External
Distressed
Stimuli
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If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.
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Crew
Saddest
World Me Person
Documentary
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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.
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Adoration
Lone
Misled
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Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was destructive as well.
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Destructive
Badge
Queer
Runs
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I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.
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Access
Didactic
Safe
Voice
Answer
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I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I've got such much to procrastinate with.
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Creative Process
Conducive
Procrastinate
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Comedy is a man's art form. It pretty much came from a time, post-World War II really - the 1950s are not really known for the subtle expressions of feminine life.
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Feminine
Subtle
Life Time Art
Art Form
Life War Time
Expressions
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I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so I've already done a lot of that.
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Art History
Australia
Australian
Documentaries
Lectures
Art History Always
Galleries
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The only people I don't reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don't really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they're fine.
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Dedicated
Fine
White
Personal
Personal Level
Reach
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Comedy is great in that it's accessible to someone like me, from a low socioeconomic background, struggling in life. The gatekeepers are a lot stronger in other art forms.
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Comedy
Gatekeepers
Stronger
Life Art Great
Accessible
Background
Art Forms
Forms
Low
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If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.
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Me People Laugh
Thin
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'Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.
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Blast
Expected
Margins
Seal
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Shame has its place. Shame is what you do to a kid to stop them running on the road. And then you take the shame away, and immediately, they're back in the fold. You should never soak anybody in shame. It's the prolonged existence of shame that then flips out into destructive rage. We can't exist in that. It's like treacle.
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Running
Destructive
Rage
Shame
Anybody
Away
Exist
Flips
Fold
Immediately
Prolonged
Road
Soak
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