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Jessica Williams
American
Comedian
Born:
Jul 31
,
1989
Me
People
Think
Time
Women
You
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I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. It would make me crack.
Jessica Williams
Time
Me
Stress
Black
Feeling
Out
Would
Make
Around
Walking
Crack
'Sex and the City' didn't change the show because it was an international sensation. They kept it in New York.
Jessica Williams
Change
Sex
Sex And The City
City
New
Because
York
New York
Sensation
Show
International
Kept
I don't really do stand-up.
Jessica Williams
Really
I love it when women are like, 'You guys sound like me and my best friend!'
Jessica Williams
Love
Best
Me
You
Women
Best Friend
Guys
Like
Sound
Friend
Women Are
You Guys
We're all trying to catch up with Beyonce. We're all running a race, and Beyonce is up there, and we're all just trying to run and get there. That's my motivation.
Jessica Williams
Run
Running
Catch
Beyonce
Motivation
Up
Get
Trying
Just
Race
Acting-wise, I love Helena Bonham Carter. I love Kate Winslet. I love Angelina Jolie when she was 'Girl, Interrupted' Angelina Jolie. There isn't anybody that I can definitely point to and be like her. Because I've never felt like I've been able to relate to the women that are famous.
Jessica Williams
Love
Women
Girl
Relate
Definitely
Carter
Able
Angelina Jolie
Point
Never
Like
She
Because
Felt
Been
Anybody
Famous
Helena
Kate
Her
Interrupted
I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.
Jessica Williams
Love
Comedy
Drinking
First
Live
Late
Kid
Visit
Staying
Trips
Fell
House
Up
Meant
Granny
Coca-Cola
Her
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Watching
Night
I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.
Jessica Williams
World
Better
Blackness
Feel
Like
Always
Opposite
Womanhood
Wanting
Which
Whiteness
Warring
It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.
Jessica Williams
Good
You
Yourself
Impossible
Good Job
Job
Too
Others
Focused
Perfect
Proving
I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.
Jessica Williams
Women
Speak
Black
Think
Over
Labels
Them
Assign
Need
There are a lot of podcasters that are females of color. And I think that we should be allowed to tell a very specific kind of story. And if you don't like it, you don't like it. But if you do, enjoy the tea! Sip that tea.
Jessica Williams
You
Tea
Enjoy
Think
Tell
Kind
Color
Allowed
Like
Females
Lot
Sip
Very
Story
Should
Specific
I don't think I'll ever be a housewife.
Jessica Williams
Think
Housewife
Ever
I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.
Jessica Williams
Own
Kind
Direct
My Own
Write
Want
Thing
I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.
Jessica Williams
Sometimes
Young
Correspondent
Just
Straightforward
Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will be just from a satirical, goofy perspective.
Jessica Williams
Woman
Perspective
Will
Black
Other
Something
Deliver
Goofy
Ultimately
Lot
Times
Just
Satirical
I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.
Jessica Williams
Daily
No-One
Feet
Because
Tall
Sitting
Six
Show
Daily Show
My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.
Jessica Williams
World
Harry
Harry Potter
Favorite
London
Potter
Tour
Place
Near
I read so much Harry Potter, that's, like, all I wanted to talk about. I watched stuff like 'Lizzie McGuire.' I watched things that were very mainstream but white, and I went to a predominately white school.
Jessica Williams
School
White
Harry
Harry Potter
About
Potter
Mainstream
Stuff
Like
Talk
Read
Were
Very
Wanted
Much
Things
Watched
Allison Jones, a big casting director out there, was like, 'They're casting 'The Daily Show' right now - you should submit a tape.' I remember leaving school to go shoot an audition.
Jessica Williams
Daily
You
Director
Remember
School
Big
Submit
Out
Casting
Allison
Like
Audition
Leaving
Go
Tape
Shoot
Should
Show
Now
Daily Show
Right
Me and Cate Blanchett have the same job, technically.
Jessica Williams
Me
Technically
Job
Cate Blanchett
Same
I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.
Jessica Williams
Relationship
Independence
Battling
Simultaneously
Maintaining
Always
How
While
Career
When I was a young lady, I never fantasized about getting married.
Jessica Williams
Young
Married
About
Never
Getting
Getting Married
Lady
Young Lady
I enjoy romantic comedies in general. I like them when they're bad, I like when they're good.
Jessica Williams
Good
Enjoy
Bad
General
Like
Comedies
Romantic
Romantic Comedies
Them
Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. And some days I'll wake up, and I'm like, 'I am the dopest woman to exist on Earth'.
Jessica Williams
Today
Great
Woman
Wake Up
Earth
Some
Days
Like
Am
Exist
Wake
Bummed
Up
Anything
I'm a young person; sometimes I'm political, sometimes I'm not.
Jessica Williams
Sometimes
Political
Young
Person
Young Person
Oh, I'm obsessed with the Kardashians. Not the way that I think a 13- or 14-year-old girl would be, but I find them fascinating. They are so rich. They are also, at the end of the day, women of color.
Jessica Williams
Day
Women
End Of The Day
Girl
Rich
Think
Way
Would
Would-Be
Find
Color
Obsessed
Also
End
Oh
Them
Fascinating
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