Samantha Bee Quotes
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
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Sometimes you're just interviewing someone and you're thinking the entire time, How can I get through this really quickly? Because I know this isn't gonna make it. This person is either too long-winded or deathly boring, or they don't have the point of view that supports what you're trying to do in the piece. Or often people misrepresent themselves on the phone - what they're willing to say to you then, they're not willing to say in person.
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I'm not even reading about the U.S. election, I'm just totally involved in the Canadian one.
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There's always going to be someone who hates you. There's always going to be people who love you. It's a risk in either direction.
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Nobody wants to have things blurted at them.
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Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.
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It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.
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I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it!
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It's very Canadian of me - or maybe it's more the Catholic schoolgirl in me - but I always really want to do a good job.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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I take my citizenship extremely seriously. I find myself drawn to the Constitution more and more with each passing day of Donald Trump's presidency.
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I don't feel like any of the things we're talking about are going to make the world end.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Everybody is agreeing so tersely. I just had a flashback to the month before my parents finally admitted they were getting a divorce.
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The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him.
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I find Donald Trump so haphazard, and that keeps me up at night.
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President Trump - God forbid - the country will be okay, I promise. I don't know exactly what the country will look like, but we will survive it.
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Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.
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More people need to inhabit this world.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.
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We definitely sometimes get stuff that's different that we were expecting. I mean, that's part of the joy and the terror of interviewing real, live people. Sometimes they come along the journey with you, and most of the time they don't.
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I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.
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I don't think I'm very much like the person I am on the show. I'm certainly not as ambitious; no, that's not true, I'm kind of ambitious. In a nice way. But there's a part of me. A lot of me. There's a lot of what I think is funny.
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Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
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When you can agree on one thing, you should have no expectation that suddenly a person is converted to your way of thinking. You have to be willing to be frustrated constantly.
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