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In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

I took a $40k pay cut to leave my technical copywriter job and work for $6k a year.

I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.

I like to create a community where people want to come and have a good time and do their best work.

My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

The White House is a serious place, with serious people, doing serious work. If you're not careful, it can grind you down.

You never want your greatest work to be 10 years ago.

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.

You're still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.

It's really awesome to come back home and be recognized for the hard work.

What can I do to create a healthy work environment? Because we have all been groomed to the normalization of violence and the normalization of abuse. And we refuse to live in that society.

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

I think women sometimes stop flirting with their husbands, and you can't. Men want to want feel good - they want to feel like their women love them. When they come home from work, don't start nagging them with questions. Go up to them and give them a big kiss and ask them how their day was.

For me, my one thing is eyelash extensions. I always have them on cause they just do all the work and let everything look better. If I have eyelash extensions on, I will put on some under eye concealer and maybe, like, an illuminating moisturizer and call it a day.

'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.

Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.

The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It's much harder.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

For the vast majority of my adult life, I was a freelance writer, forever scrambling for work that paid an insulting non-amount.