Sara Pascoe Quotes

Sara Pascoe

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 22, 1981

We don't live in a world where, if you commit a crime, your life's over. We as a society believe in rehabilitation. We believe in second and third chances.

Sara Pascoe

I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.

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I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.

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I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand.

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When I go back to Essex, where I grew up, I'm still appalled by the homophobia and casual racism and aggression. I live in Lewisham, in south London, and though it might look a bit rough, it's a diverse, friendly neighbourhood.

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But, if you read science journals or the inside of Snapple caps, you might already know that watching TV is the closest you can get to being dead, which is why it's so relaxing.

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People learn more when they're enjoying themselves.

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As an adult, my hero is my dog, Mouse. He is so friendly to everyone he meets. He wags his tail and loves everyone, like Jesus!

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After an afternoon of interviewing Siri it turns out there are millions of questions that it can't or won't answer: How did you get my phone number? How many Siris are there? Did you have a Christmas party? Who is playing the tiny xylophone before and after each interaction? Are you spying on us, plotting the downfall of our species?

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The pancreas releases insulin to make you ready for fight or flight when you're scared. So if you don't fight or flight - if you stay onstage, telling jokes - then your body stores more fat in your tummy which makes you insulin resistant. All comedians have fat bellies, even if they exercise.

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I try so hard to be tolerant of everyone and their choices, but people who harm pets or support factory farming have an enemy in me.

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We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

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When I was little, I wore shoes that were too small for me for years, so my feet grew weird, so my little toenails grow and then they just fall off and then they grow again.

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Many of my memories of my mum are of her in the bath with a book, utilising her limited spare time by simultaneously washing and studying. She left school with no qualifications and now has a PhD. If I seem like I am bragging about this, I am.

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When I was 14, I auditioned for Michael Barrymore's 'My Kind Of People'.

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I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

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There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I'd like to apologise to her.

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Since I was really small, my mum says I wouldn't talk at breakfast because I would just read the back of the cereal packet.

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I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and I also didn't like to give them back once I'd read them. I just read everything.

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Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

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