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" I enjoy 'Life Aquatic.' I think that one, from a visual standpoint, is just such a fun, visual movie to look at, whether it's the shots of the ship cut down the middle, that set where you can see everyone in each of their rooms doing whatever and moving about - something like that, I could watch that on a loop for an hour. "

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" There are certain things that you can blast through a stereo. You can blast hip-hop. You can blast heavy metal. You can't blast 'All Things Considered.' "

Wyatt Cenac

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" I'm not trying to walk away from responsibility or anything like that, but I think there's a bunch of people on TV who get trust simply for being on TV. "

" I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So, they get excited when they see Patton Oswalt is going to be on the show, but they kind of cross their arms until Patton Oswalt shows up. "

" When I worked on 'The Daily Show,' we had some puppets made of myself, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. When I left the show, I stole the puppet. I took what was rightfully mine. "

" There are some artists that may actually be crazy, but there are some artists that just make different choices, and because they are different, we call them crazy. "

" For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity. "

" I just hate the Internet. "

" We all live with contradictions. "

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" I've had shows where, afterwards, people have commented or hoped I would talk more about something in politics or that I would make a joke about Mitch McConnell or something like that. "

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" Flights are a good way to catch up on podcasts, but I'll listen to some jazz to fall asleep. "

" Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it. "

" I can't be manic without it feeling false to me. "

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" I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked. "

" Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing. "

" I am not looking at my TV show to change the world. "

" I have worked in animation on 'King of the Hill.' I've worked in late-night with 'The Daily Show.' I've worked on single-camera stuff, whether it was a movie or television. I have performed onstage. "

" Women deal with real issues with policing that don't really get talked about. "

" The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project. "

" I went to an all-boys Catholic school in Dallas. "

" Everybody has a stake in the story of policing. "

" For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local and very personalized to communities, to cities, to legislators, and so, in that way, I think as we started looking into talking about policing, the thing that you realize is that you can't paint everything with the same brush. "

Wyatt Cenac

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Looking

" I think, with these shows, with 'Last Week Tonight,' with 'Full Frontal,' I think, as these shows have evolved, we all have research departments now. "

" I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever - a window of opportunity - that is totally outside of your control, and it's that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career. "

" I listen to a lot of Freddie Hubbard. "

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" It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe. "

" What's sad is that we can have a reality-television performer for president without incorporating the other aspects of reality television - like voting and voter engagement. "

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Reality

" There's always a certain concern whenever you go and shoot a field piece: that maybe all the elements won't come together, knowing that you have limited time to tell a story, hoping that you get all the elements you need, hoping the subjects are comfortable. "

" When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background. "

" There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities. "

" I represent my community, and I represent my people. And I've got to be honest if something seems questionable. "