"A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material."
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"As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself."
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"I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging."
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"I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat."
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"Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that."
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"The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder."
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"I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year."
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"I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell."
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"I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief."
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"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
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"I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom."
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"You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow."
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"I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to."
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"You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish and salad, it's easy to lose your willpower."
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"I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly."
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"Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right"
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"If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance"
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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"You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are."
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"I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head."
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