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" Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. "
Denis Leary
Used
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" In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work. "
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" I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side? "
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" It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.' "
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" I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor. "
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" What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.' "
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" I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job. "
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" There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. "
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" I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married. "
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" If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is. "
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