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Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

B. J. Novak

If you love something, let it go. If you don’t love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.
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Care Go Let
Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
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Perfectionism Plus Regret
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who’s your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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Hopefully Persons Type
I think it’s better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
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Giving Important Thinking
The Office’ is less a comedy than so many other “comedies” that have been on the air. It’s really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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Air Office Real
I do not have very much office experience.
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Experience Much Office
Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
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Battered Sound Women
If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can’t they be well paid for changing young minds?
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Basketball People Reality
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
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Laughing People Writing
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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Creative Way World
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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Daydreaming Easy Impossible
It’s not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
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Brave Party Years
There’s not many good comedies to watch – you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
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Comedy Glad Watches
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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Design Opportunity People
Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.
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Expected Perfect Type
Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
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Ends Long Remember

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

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