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.
B. J. NOVAKThe 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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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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Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
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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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I’m a believer in trusting the director.
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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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Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
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Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you’re the best.
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Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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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.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who’s your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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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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I do not have very much office experience.
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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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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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