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" I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism. "
T. J. Miller
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" I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something. "
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" I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer. "
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" We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed. "
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" I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.' "
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" I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man. "
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" If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard. "
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" Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content. "
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" I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times. "
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Me
" Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy. "
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Really
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" To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write. "
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Write
Never
" I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does. "
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Think
Know
" The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.' "
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Be Happy
Good
Happy
" I have perfectly symmetrical ankles. "
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Perfectly
Symmetrical
Ankles
" My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence. "
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Grooming
Face
Confidence
" I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'. "
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Me
Hurt
" Comedy gives you a shot of euphoria that distracts you from everything that's awful. "
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Euphoria
Everything
" My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you. "
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Work
You
" I think it is very important to be a method actor. "
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I Think
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" Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. "
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Men
Absurdity
Food
" I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life. "
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Escape
Tragedy
People
" Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering. "
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Almost
Effective
Satire
" My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work. "
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Face
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Radio
" I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs. "
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Concerts
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" I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant. "
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" Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era. "
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" I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy. "
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" I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'. "
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Yellow
Singing
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" I was the Head Boy of East High School in 1999. I represent 303 - the area code, not the band - Mile High, until I die. I'm 31, a comedian; I juggle, but I don't glove it. I think waxed mustaches run a very thin line between hipster and 1800s barkeep. "
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