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"The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name."

"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday."

"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."

"And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first."
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"Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?"


"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."


"I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road."


"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."


"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."


"Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance."


"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."
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