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"It was Christopher's brilliant concept that he did not want this to become like every other sitcom where you do one take, and the audience gets bored with seeing it ten times, you know, over and over again."
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"I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there."
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"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."


"Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever."


"I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left."
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"I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming."
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"I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years."


"I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture."
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"They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down."
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"Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off."
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"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."


"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
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"And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say."
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"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want."
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"A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending."
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"If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with."
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"If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on."
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"When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday."
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