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.
B. J. NOVAKThere’s not many good comedies to watch – you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
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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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Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
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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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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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I’m a believer in trusting the director.
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There’s not many good comedies to watch – you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
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Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
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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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I do not have very much office experience.
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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 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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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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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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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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Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
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