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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
~ B. J. Novak
About
Air
Balance
Been
Between
Comedies
Comedy
Comic
Less
Many
Office
Other
Real
Really
Than
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
~ B. J. Novak
Cue
Decision
Design
Different
Different People
Different Styles
Director
Every
Everything
Moment
Obsessed
Opportunity
Over
People
Piece
Production
Styles
Visual
Writer
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
~ B. J. Novak
Comics
Each
Good
Gravitate
Hopefully
Know
Onstage
Other
Person
Them
Type
Watching
You
Your
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I do not have very much office experience.
~ B. J. Novak
Experience
Much
Office
Very
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I don't actually feel multi-talented. I just feel that I'm in this business where we give ourselves 100 titles and gold statues. It's like, lawyers aren't like, 'You're incredible! You're a professional arguer in front of the judge! You're great at paperwork!' No, you just get credit for one job.
~ B. J. Novak
Actually
Business
Credit
Feel
Front
Get
Give
Gold
Great
Incredible
Job
Judge
Just
Lawyers
Like
Ourselves
Paperwork
Professional
Statues
Titles
Where
You
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I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!
~ B. J. Novak
Always
Another
Argue
Audience
Best
Brilliant
Every
Feel
Figure
Head
Help
I Feel
I Feel Like
Idea
Like
Me
Out
Somebody
Tell
Telling
Until
Voice
Will
Wins
Worst
You
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I have blue eyes, and before I knew anything about fashion - I'm talking about the second grade - I learned I would get a compliment if I wore a blue shirt.
~ B. J. Novak
About
Anything
Before
Blue
Blue Eyes
Compliment
Eyes
Fashion
Get
Grade
Knew
Learned
Second
Shirt
Talking
Wore
Would
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I have one really nice watch. It's a white-face, stainless-steel Rolex Daytona. I wear it a lot. I got that in the middle of 'The Office.' All the guys in the writers' room were like, 'Let's all get a nice watch.' We were too busy to upgrade our lives in a big way, but we thought this was a nice symbolic gesture.
~ B. J. Novak
Big
Big Way
Busy
Gesture
Get
Got
Guys
Like
Lives
Lot
Middle
Nice
Office
Our
Our Lives
Really
Room
Symbolic
Thought
Too
Upgrade
Watch
Way
Wear
Were
Writers
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I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it's going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why?
~ B. J. Novak
100 Years
About
Back
Blue
Crazy
Day
Default
Every
Every Day
Everyone
Fact
Going
I Think
Jeans
Like
Look
Pants
Stiff
Straight
Think
Why
Wore
Years
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I remember my mum coming into my bedroom when I was lying awake one night, and she asked what I was thinking of... And I was telling her about the inventions I would invent, and she said, 'Can't you ever just think stupid thoughts?'
~ B. J. Novak
About
Asked
Awake
Bedroom
Coming
Ever
Her
I Remember
Invent
Inventions
Just
Lying
Mum
Night
One-Night
Remember
Said
She
Stupid
Telling
Think
Thinking
Thoughts
Would
You
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I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a profession. My dad saved me all that time by making me think, 'Oh, anyone can be a writer. It's like being a firefighter or a lawyer.'
~ B. J. Novak
Anyone
Because
Being
Courage
Dad
Fantasy
Firefighter
Getting
I Think
Just
Lawyer
Like
Lot
Making
Me
Oh
Profession
Saved
Seems
Spend
Think
Time
Up
Write
Writer
Writers
Years
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I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.
~ B. J. Novak
Am
Associated
Being
Beloved
Doing
Famous
Great
I Am
I Think
Massively
Proud
Quality
Sounds
Things
Think
Very
Were
Yeah
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
~ B. J. Novak
Creative
Creative Outlet
First
Found
More
Out
Outlet
Struck
Then
Wanted
Way
World
Writer
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
~ B. J. Novak
Believer
Director
Trusting
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If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive.
~ B. J. Novak
Alive
Choose
Could
Dead
Dinner
Go
I Think
If I Could
Person
Think
Would
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My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them.
~ B. J. Novak
Goal
I Can
I Love
Love
Make
Popular
Them
Things
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The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
~ B. J. Novak
Aspire
Exciting
Going
Know
Laugh
Make
Most
New
People
Perform
Something
Something New
Thing
Work
Write
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There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
~ B. J. Novak
Comedies
Glad
Good
Know
Make
Many
Them
Watch
Watched
You
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
~ B. J. Novak
About
Daydreaming
Easy
Impossible
Travel
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