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"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do."
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"I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week."

"I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing."

"To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best."

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."

"I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is."
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