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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.

B. J. Novak

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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Lines Love You Thanks
Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
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Perfectionism Plus Regret
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
Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
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Battered Sound Women
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
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
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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Daydreaming Easy Impossible
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
I do not have very much office experience.
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Experience Much Office
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
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
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
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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Expected Perfect Type
I’m a believer in trusting the director.
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Believer Directors Trust
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

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