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It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.
It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.
Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.
My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.
Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.
Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn't Scotland's fault. It was my circumstances. I was - I hate to say the word humbled - but that's what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people.
The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.
The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.
Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.
You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.
'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.
A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.
As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit.
Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.
Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because I think that's what it means to be human.
I don't come to London very often.
I don't listen to music when I write. If I do, I usually end up giving it my whole attention, which means, unfortunately, I don't get much work done!
I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
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