Lucan Quotes
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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I know nothing about technology.
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I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
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I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.
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The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
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Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictumaut mors ipsa nihil.
