"Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair."
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"Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay."
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"We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else."
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"I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame."
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"I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email."
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"I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view."
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"What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone."
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"I can't sing very well but I'd like to try."
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"Try to be free: you will die of hunger."
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"I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority."
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"An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it."
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"Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing."
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"I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred."
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"You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know."
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"I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die."
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"Of all the albums I've made, I still don't feel like I've made the perfect album. I've had ones that touch on this, and others that touch on that, but never one that's just perfect and fully relevant. I don't know if I'll ever make it, but I'm certainly trying every day."
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"I try not to look at stories on the Internet because I don't want to psych myself out. I kinda half to stay off the Internet. I'm not thick-skinned enough. I get too sensitive. I don't want it to effect what I'm doing."
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"We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change."
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"I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it."
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"Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you."
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