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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."
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"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."
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"I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it."
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"Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun."
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"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"
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"I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks."
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"Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field."
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"I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days."
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"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."
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"But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time."
Time
"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
Money
"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
People
"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
People
"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
Fun
"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
Space
"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
Fiction
"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
Purpose
"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
Fun
"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
Question
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