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"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."
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"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
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"I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen."
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"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."
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"I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it."
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"I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail."
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"I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough."
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"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."
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"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do."
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"I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band."
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"I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying."
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"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."
Mother
"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."
Expectation
"I have a kind of objective luxury about my career."
Career
"Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes."
People
"People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue."
Father
"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."
Funny
"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."
Trying
"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears."
Death
"I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit."
People
"I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace."
Family
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