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...uncorny, human sized drama
I like excess. And giant M&M's.
I can only control what I can control.
You just have to fight your way through.
I don't think I've ever stolen anything.
I seen a pig so big it’d block out the sun.
Honestly, I don't see movies more than once.
Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.
In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
Go looking for an idea and it'll show up. Begin now.
Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.
I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.
I think the most famous person I've ever met is Brad Pitt.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
I dont meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
I dont know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.
I dont take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.
Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.
I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.