Sara Pascoe Quotes

Sara Pascoe

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 22, 1981

When you meet a new woman who does stand-up, it is instantly like, 'Yes! In the gang'. Because you know the logistics of the job: they travel a lot, it's lonely in dressing rooms, you know that they have bad gigs. That means they don't have to prove themselves to me.

Sara Pascoe

The only reason you would hate to be compared to 'Fleabag' is if you were said to be 'not as good as Fleabag'.

Sara Pascoe

Culturally even, you have shows like 'Friends' or 'Sex in the City' that are imbibed along with like fairy stories, which are all about The One. Then we feel like we're looking for it, and if relationships end, what we've experienced isn't valid.

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I really respect the work and speeches of Tony Benn. He was a powerful speaker with a huge heart.

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I was always obsessed with ancient Egypt, but any time you go back to wouldn't be as good for women as now - so it might be a quick visit.

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I get too upset by online criticism.

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Someone who didn't do comedy might think it was awful to have someone talking about you. But I just love the attention, even if I'm not there.

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The podcast is a bit like a phone call, except you don't say anything.

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That's the thing: when I listen on public transport, my headphones act as a separator - a wired barrier between me and the nearest people. Yet my podcasts drag me through the depths of human nature.

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It's interesting that reading, like listening to podcasts, is a lone pursuit, one where we keep our mouths shut and let someone else do the talking. Where we absorb rather than emit. By occasionally isolating ourselves, we can more successfully, more generously, socialise.

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When podcasts are in charge there will be no wars, just ears. That will probably be our motto, but in Latin. In our podcastian future, we'll comprehend that each story has another angle, every case a contradictory piece of evidence.

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I have never been to Ladies' Day at the Grand National. I've never been to any day there, truth be told, and unless they introduce a Scruffy People Who Believe Horse Racing to Be Deeply Cruel Day and pay me to attend I can't see that changing.

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For women, style codes are not merely about being smart or presentable, they are a platform for judgment.

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Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without magazines and commenting hosts, we'd all suddenly dress in practical overalls and only judge a person on the quality of their charity work and poetry.

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It's unfair but true: youth is attractive, curvy women are attractive, outliers who look a bit different to everybody else are attractive.

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Call centres employ mainly out-of-work actors because vocal skills plus low self-esteem equals reliable cold caller.

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The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.

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Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.

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If a bright-coated fundraiser was hassling a confused pensioner in the street, people would see, some hero would intervene. But it's happening in living rooms on landlines, and it will continue.

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While all religious beliefs should be respected, choice is a human right.

Sara Pascoe