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" Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' "
Greg Kinnear
Today
Good
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" There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. "
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" I like complicated characters. "
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" 'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. "
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" I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. "
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" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "
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" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "
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" The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. "
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" Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite. "
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" I like the classics! "
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" I have always been interested in the concept of ruin. "
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" I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic. "
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" There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. "
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