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" I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story. "
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" I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some reason, when I was eleven, I was like, 'I know thirty's going to be good. Get through those twenties!' "
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" I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot. "
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" I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying. "
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" I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally. "
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" No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly. "
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" You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain. "
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" I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side. "
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" I feel liberated being around women who are liberated. "
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" I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth. "
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" People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people. "
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" Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?' "
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" I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family. "
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" What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write. "
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" The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers. "
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