Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who’s your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
B. J. NOVAKIt’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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I’m a believer in trusting the director.
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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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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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Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
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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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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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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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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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There’s not many good comedies to watch – you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
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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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Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
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I do not have very much office experience.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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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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