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"It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public."
Idea
"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts."
School
"My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions."
Authority
"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
Parents
"You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down."
Deep
"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."
Family
"I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world."
Play
"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
Art
"It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it."
Funny
"It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level."
Time
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"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
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"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny."
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"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
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"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
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"I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that."
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"I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny."
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"Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth."
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"Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist."
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"It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?"
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"A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it."
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