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Robert Smigel is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches. He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

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• I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Love
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• A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Honor
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• I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Love
  • Comedy
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• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
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• I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
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• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
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• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
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• Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Me
  • Comedy
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• I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writer
  • Storyteller

• America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • World
  • Believe
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• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Comedy
  • Always
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• I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.

  

  Halsey
  • House
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• We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
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• Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Eyes
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• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Me
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• Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Comedy
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• In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Men
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• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

  

  Ben Edlund
  • Nature
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I tell guys all the time, you see me messing up, get at me. I want you to get at me.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Up
  • Time

• Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.

  

  Arvind Kejriwal
  • Right
  • Information
  • Step

• Robert Smigel is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches. He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • Comedy
  • Unique
  • Writer