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Paula Pell
American
Writer
Because
Me
People
Sister
Time
You
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I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.
Paula Pell
Late
Late Bloomer
Embrace
Bloomer
Going
I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.
Paula Pell
Woman
Women
Strong
Comedy
Convictions
Think
Other
Respected
Bit
Opens
Because
Up
Very
Any
Door
Little
Little Bit
Room
Then
Helps
Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.
Paula Pell
Me
Old
Men
Young
Run
Parking
Never
Dudes
Get
Handsome
Heat
Flirt
My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.
Paula Pell
Woman
Old
Three
Year
Sister
Old Woman
Older
Super
Like
Looked
Always
Year-Old
Years
I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being 'cocky,' or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.
Paula Pell
Time
You
Yourself
People
Better
Disagree
Finally
Mad
Would
Would-Be
Having
Opinion
Learnt
Up
Than
Being
Where
Grew
Them
Speaking
Cocky
If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'
Paula Pell
Funny
God
Day
You
Trust
Sometimes
Judgment
Think
Funny Person
Something
Open
Also
Read
Because
Go
Hired
Person
Oh
Oh My God
Next
Your
I was always a bit of a class clown.
Paula Pell
Class
Clown
Bit
Class Clown
Always
I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
Paula Pell
Funny
Mom
Extremely
Super
Up
Grew
Dad
Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.
Paula Pell
Myself
Challenge
Laugh
Run
Stay
Some
Something
Days
Cry
Make
Up
Maybe
Children
Toast
Themselves
Marathon
Challenged
Jerry
Watch
Two
Lewis
You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.
Paula Pell
Time
You
People
Writing
Better
Ending
Gun
Joke
Live
Air
Laugh
TV
Dress
Entire
Having
Between
New
Come
Because
Terrifying
Audience
Lot
End
Times
Gets
Bigger
Which
Sketch
Your
Even
Filing
Live Tv
I'm obsessed with 'Rocky.' We went 13 times to the theater.
Paula Pell
Obsessed
Rocky
Times
Theater
I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.
Paula Pell
Great
Parents
Sister
Born
Totally
Small
House
Little
Midwestern
Illinois
Two
My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.
Paula Pell
Me
Woman
Three
Sister
Farm
Older
Our
Wildly
Journals
Like
Looked
She
Polish
Were
Years
Than
Short
Different
Fox
It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.
Paula Pell
Yourself
Thinking
Trick
Easy
Something
Than
Funnier
I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.
Paula Pell
Positive
Word
Positive Thing
Because
Always
Heavy
Loved
Use
Thick
Thing
I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.
Paula Pell
Me
Money
Sister
Back
Kids
Had
Knowing
She
Well
Always
Get
Going
Paid
Full
All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.
Paula Pell
Work
Great
Women
Other
Those
Area
Powerful
Material
Women Are
Up
SNL
Just
Themselves
Produce
Even
Assertive
Grown
Grown-Up
It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.
Paula Pell
You
Together
Writing
Enjoy
Characters
Thread
Minutes
More
Voice
Could
Take
Because
Five
Than
Happen
Movies
Them
Really
Fun
Whose
Actual
Actually
Things
Things Happen
Start
I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
Paula Pell
You
People
Matter
Care
About
Felt
Always
Sketches
Then
Even
I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
Paula Pell
Me
Total
Always
Ham
Taught
Really
Dad
I went to college at University of Tennessee.
Paula Pell
College
Tennessee
University
Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.
Paula Pell
Game
Simple
Comedy
Twitter
Addicted
About
Something
Writers
Like
Because
Got
Very
Just
Just Because
Video
Video Game
Really
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