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"I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the rest of my life, but also I would like a TV show at some point."
"When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart."
"You never know what show is going to change your life."
"Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling."
"The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for."
"But this is called show business, not show family."
"I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now."
"I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards."
"Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled."
"Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman."
"Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to show Shall show the better."
"We will draw the curtain and show you the picture."
"Earth has not anything to show more fair."
"In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time."
"Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back."
"Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you."
"Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party."
"Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets."
"If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it."
"If you are having fun on screen, it shows."
