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My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.

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I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'

Jesse Eisenberg

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Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

John C. Reilly

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The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

Jeremy Paxman

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It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

Jennifer O'Neill

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One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane

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I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

Stephen Lang

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In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Michael Oxley

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It's hard to get to the right position, to be somebody who is commercially successful and critically acclaimed. That's the sweet spot.

Miles Teller

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I work out every day, and I challenge myself. I've got a couple of friends who do CrossFit; I'm not a huge CrossFit guy, but I love the challenge.

Donald Driver

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Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Apolo Ohno

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I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.

Anohni

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