I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.
Terry Gross
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I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.
Maz Jobrani
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Two things happen when you're fearful. First, you make seemingly rational decisions that are actually hedges. Or second, you fail to do something because you worry about the consequences.
John Landgraf
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Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.
Robert Stigwood
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People seem to want to give 'Flowers' a comedy or a comedy-drama label. I suppose it's closer to comedy-drama, but it feels like it requires a whole new definition all of its own.
Sophia Di Martino
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'Nicholas Nickleby' was the best example, where 43 people could make an audience of 1,500 look at a fingernail at any given moment. It was so controlled, and yet it was a group of disparate individuals. It was a happy, constructive time, and it seemed to be an active discussion of what makes the theater work.
Roger Rees
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I made some very forgettable films, but I liked them all when I was doing them.
Roger Moore
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My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
Mika
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We are on the road 250-280 days a year at least, and it's something that, if I have a wife and kids at home, I don't know if I could do it.
Dolph Ziggler
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When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
Christine Lagarde
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Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
Christine McVie
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I remember going to a son's friend's bar mitzvah, and the text that he chose to explicate was right at the beginning of Genesis. It was not about a fall from grace or a fall from perfection; it was about an awakening into consciousness, which is what it means to be human.
Claire Messud
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud
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