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" A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. "
Know
Sunshine
You
" An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. "
He
Dignity
Gentleman
" Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it. "
World
Kind
Ballet
" A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast. "
You
Get
Fast
" Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled. "
Father
Bad
Home
" Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! "
Word
Funny
Boy
" Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. "
Order
Midst
Funny
" Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. "
Business
Big
Pretty
" Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. "
Dinosaurs
Did
Humans
" 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun. "
Funny
Think
Good
" Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. "
Sex
You
Talking
" Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been. "
Love
Science
Technology
" Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. "
Like
Only
Out
" I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it. "
Like
Credit
Feel
" I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. "
Art
Out
Idiot
" I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. "
I Believe
Wilderness
Country
" I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. "
Believe
Money
Natural
" I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. "
Way
Why
Truth
" I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. "
Success
Me
Wild
" I don't like to look back, and I'm always worried about the next thing rather than resting on the laurels or the degradations of the last thing. "
Like
Resting
Always
" I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing. "
Think
Light
Me
" I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music. "
View
Music
Good
" I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them. "
Thought
Rest
Play
" I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly. "
Chimney
Shot
Perfectly
" I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head. "
Music
Thought
Interesting
" I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point. "
Believe
Time
You
" I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy. "
Care
Actor
Business
" I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there. "
Like
Punch
Radio
" I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. "
Head
Hate
Funny
" I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response. "
You
Yourself
Off
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