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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.
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Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
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There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
