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I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.
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It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!
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I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
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I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
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If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
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It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
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Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'
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Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
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Can I bite you here, too?
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I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.
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When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
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When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.
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You just have to play the character.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
