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I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways.

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Own, Very, Dad, Philly

I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.

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Love, College, City, Joyfully

I didn't go to school for illustration. I did larger pieces, mostly drawings and paintings, and minored in video, but when I moved to N.Y.C., I didn't have a studio space anymore and downsized to my desk and started illustrating. I started a greeting card company and sold cards all over the city.

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Studio, Larger, Illustrating, Illustration

I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley - which, clearly, is my parents' doing, because he's, like, 10. He's the host, I'm every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.

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Doing, Saturday, Dad, Elton

I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation.

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Year, See, Around, Vacation

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.

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Love, Comedy, Unquestionably, Versus

I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

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Show, Been, Real Characters, Cosby

I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I.

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Art, Always, About, Birthdays

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

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Art, Voice, Taste, Art School

I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one of his paintings. He's an L.A.-based painter; his stuff is incredible.

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Think, Incredible, Obsessed, Wood

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

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School, Middle, Getting, Middle School

I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.

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I Think, Part, Bit, Middle School

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

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Thought, Doing, Fact, Send

We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

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City, Having, Created, At Least One

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

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College, New York, Moved, Graduated

When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.

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Down, Baltimore, Had, Good Friends

I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

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Comedy, Like, Were, Starting

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

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Art, Doing, Always, Crafts

If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

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Love, Drop, Very, Lines

Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.

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Comedy, Ryan, Seamlessly, Lines

We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have products they use and their favorite sweet treats. They all have to write to-do lists, and they're all reading books - well, hopefully most people are doing those things.

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Doing, Reading Books, Use, Lists

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

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Single, Shows, Single Thing, Criticized

When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

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Mom, Bed, Always, Bath

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

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Philadelphia, Town, Which, Wayne

I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist's intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it's about.

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Behind, Some, Very, Intention

I always have a good pen with me.

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Good, Me, Always, Pen

I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.

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Love, Comedy, Influenced, Female

There haven't been a lot of superhero movies with female leads, and there have been even fewer - if any - that were truly funny. I heard Ant-Man was, but I haven't seen that yet. So, that would be my goal, my dream - to be a super-heroine who's not afraid to be feminine and also not afraid to make people laugh.

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Superhero, Been, Feminine, Female

I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.

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Level, Terrifying, Invading, Different Level

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

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Give, Will, Everybody, Gather

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