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I think I was a born scientist.
Born I Think Scientist Think
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I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

Biochemistry Creative Decided Duke
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I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

About Consciousness Talk
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Clown Paintings Sad Seen
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Any Being Desire Goes
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

Regular Sitcoms Terrible Jokes
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

Anybody Ever Much Our
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Scotland is the Canada of England!

Canada England Scotland The
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.

All America Bad Challenge
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
About Begins Book Care
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A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Sit Best Cake Bad
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If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

Face Fairytale Future Magic
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I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

Grace Aging Believe Type
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People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

Come Tone Warmth Context
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Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

Always Romance Love Lust
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Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

Results Like Love Mix
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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

Life Filling Invent Write
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I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

Believe First Houses Love
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When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

Exempt Look Lucky Outside
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There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

Again Calculator Fine Glasses
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

Born Fascist Following Great
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What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
American Audiences Awkward Captured
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

Creeps Definitely Expand Know
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
About Character Me Playing
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.

About Affinity Am Characters
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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Family Inconsistent Just Our
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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

First Good More Strange
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

After Day Encounter Every
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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Acquainted Mortality Feel Guess
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The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

Students Reading Keeping Everyone
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

Detail Discover Examining Level
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When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Away Computer Doing Elsewhere
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

Able Account Certainly Exist
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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Books Certain Editor House
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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Always Books Civility Depth
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.

Audition Being Checking Constantly
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

Also Always Artist Bunch
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I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it.
Acting Always Class High
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Believe Grow Here Higher
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

About American Angst Being
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

Apparently Brazil Bunch Company
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'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
Big Couple Exploring Founded
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I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

Around Child Felt Grief
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I am all for controlling guns
Am Controlling Guns
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

Believe Came Compassionate Conceive
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Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

Affect Better Compassionate Conscious
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So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

About Feel Life Live
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

Accepted Adult Anything Authors
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

Class ClassClown Clown Getting
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I feel happy to terrify kids.

Feel Happy IFeel Kids
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