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Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play Girl Talk to read.

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play Girl Talk to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around. – Carrie Preston

Other quotes by Carrie Preston

I got my first big paycheck for My Best Friends Wedding. This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesnt happen like that anymore, but this was in the 90s. It was the golden age! – Carrie Preston

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wedding
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Carrie Preston
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Thats What She Said is not Hollywoods standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up girl women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up. – Carrie Preston

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wedding
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and dont tend to take themselves too seriously. – Dan Auerbach

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Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. – Bill Forsyth

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As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset. – David Alan Grier

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People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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