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" All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay. "
Fred Armisen
Phones
Hard
Change
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" When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way. "
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" I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas? "
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" I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead. "
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" I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature. "
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" I am immediately disinterested when I hear mountain-climbing stories. "
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" Everywhere I go, somebody says something to me. It's really nice. "
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" I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other. "
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" That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed. "
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" Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer store. Where is this coming from? "
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Saturday
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