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If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
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I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - my male friends in particular. And I started wondering if my wife, who was certainly my best friend, supplanted those relationships.
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I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.
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I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.
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Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
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I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
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In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.
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Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.
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My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.
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I would never want my name on something that I did not write most of. Part of television is you get rewritten.
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It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
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As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
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I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.
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If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.