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We are the only animal that tells stories.
We must change the culture of politics first.
The amount of competition is just literally insane.
Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.
I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.
Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.
I read every draft of every episode of every series produced at FX.
I'd like to give every member of our cast a best supporting comedy Emmy.
I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.
Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.
Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.
You want your company to be a vehicle for many people to achieve their dreams.
We can live nuanced, complicated, exciting lives with no reason for limitation.
I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.
I don't focus on the results. Put my head down, put my hoodie up, and do the work.
I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!
I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.
I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.
I have respect for anyone who helps a creator put a great television show on the air.
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.
Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].
It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.
I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.
I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.
I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure.
I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.
Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.
If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got.
I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.
I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford.
As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.
It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun.
I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.
I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.
Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.
As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.
All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.
I'm not interested in world domination. I'm interested in running a nice little brand that takes care of its own and does really good work.
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.
Luc Robitaille is a great kid and good player, but ask anybody on the street and they'd probably think Luc Robitaille is a type of salad dressing.
What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.
All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.
I'm certainly never going to say that someone is prettier than Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but someone who would make her crazy for being young and good-looking.
I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.
Most books about Stanley Kubrick were written by people who never met him and gathered information from articles written by others who didn't know him either.
It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.
I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential.
We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.