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As a rule people don’t think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny.
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As quoted in "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)

 

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