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To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Asked Complain Get Like
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There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

Against Always Comedies Comfort
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I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.

Affect Balance Because Continue
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Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

Am Artistic Creative Groupies
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One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

Amazing Being Ended Film
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Lot of ugly funny dudes end up with some pretty gorgeous women. Women are much deeper than us in choosing a mate - they see in the long term.

Choosing Deeper Dudes End
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Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

Audience Based Different Even
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I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

Always New Onstage Out
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If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

Actually Anew Because Close
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I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.

Car Drive Enjoy Gonna
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Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.
Being Enough Go Hand
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I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

Act Like Write
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There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

Around Bath Call External
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I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

Am Aware Body Did
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If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.

Actually Because Come Could
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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

About Actor Adult Confirmed
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I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.

Because Conversations Day Every
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The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

Card Chicken Corporation Fried
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Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway.'

Afraid Anyway Comedians Friends
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I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

About Airport Comedy Cynical
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If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
Comedic Funny Going Laugh
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When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.
Album Any Material Out
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As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting Draw Imaginative Know
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Acting Actor Any Beyond
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Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Acting Always Any Doing
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I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.

Been Had Hometown Imagine
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I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.
Bugs Bunny Deep Down
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I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
Behind Better Creative Just
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Some want to be who they believe they should be. But can’t be who they want to be because they won’t let go of a strand of who they were, which made them who they are and which can’t make them who they should be.

Believe Want Strand
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…It’s not so much to say I am who I am. It’s everything to say I want to be who I should be. The journey of self-discovery is always a Lifetime Project.

I am Everything Journey Lifetime
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When you get to the top, there would be others there who had been enjoying the view before you came and would suddenly want to see if your corner is cooler than theirs.

Get to Enjoying Corner Cooler
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There is no greater recompense for delayed rewards than the joy of fulfilled expectations.
Greater recompensea Delayed Joy
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Imbibe the values of integrity, honesty, hard work and loyalty and see what those virtues in your workplace will do for you as you develop your capacity.

Imbibe Value Integrity Honesty
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When storms rage, know when to stay safe, when to rage back and when to just chill.

Storm rage Stay safe Just chill
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By the way, a smile a day won’t kill you. Find it in your heart to smile. The real deep smile from the heart.
A smile Won't kill Real deep
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Add VALUE. Give VALUE. Groom VALUE. Birth VALUE.
Add value Groom Birth
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At the early stages of my career as a creative, I understood that the essence of my gifts is to impact on society; to add value to lives through my works.

Early stage Career Essence Gift
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Read, people, read. Develop yourselves. Read beyond click-bait headlines. Read.
Read People Develop Beyond
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Move your mountains. Ride your storms. Calm the Raging Seas. And wait…see…accept… And Be. Just Be.

Move Mountains Calm Accept
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What you do in your spare time can determine how much spare time you have left..

What you Spare time Determine Have left
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It’s easier to sell a product when YOU believe in it…

Easier Sell You Believe
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Don’t be mad you have to be up so early. Just be glad you have a reason to be!
Be mad Early Glad Reason
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Stand with swag… Work with purpose… Pray in humility… And soon, It’ll all come together.

Stand with Swag Purpose Humility
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Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.
Don't Deeply Love Make
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A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

Body Mature Romantic Tragedy
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No matter who you are you can overcome that pain that’s holding you back, that past hurt that’s haunting you. You can find your inner dreamer. Just keep pushing through one day at a time. God is your strength.

No matter Overcome Pain
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As long as time exists, you will continue to change. But remember, no matter the “New You” you wake up to see, there is and will always be a place for you.

Time exist Remember Wake up
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If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
Heart Madness Want Kill
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The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory

Disease Dangerous Heart Most
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I’m never going to be a crowned queen. And that’s OK because I’m surrounded by people who’ll treat me like a queen for as long as I breathe.

Never going Queen Surrounded People
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