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" Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off. "
Johnny Galecki
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" Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course. "
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" Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now. "
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" Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That's way down the list, my friend. "
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