B.J. Novak Quotes

#1. The cute one?" "No, the other cute one." "Oh, she's cute too.

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#2. Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.

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#3. There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

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#4. I was sad that summer was over. But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too.

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#5. Wasn't he approaching Ricardo Montalban? Probably because there were more interesting things in heaven than Ricardo Montalban.

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#6. 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.

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#7. It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.

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#8. It feels like the world is made of music, and you are the world.

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#9. I could imagine being his mom and loving him a lot, if that makes sense.

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#10. He kissed her for an eternity, which was fine, because heaven had eternities to burn. Then he kissed her for another.

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#11. I'm a believer in trusting the director.

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#12. Love always won in the end. No matter how it happened, no matter what it took, no matter what it meant. Fair or not, true or not, love won.

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#13. Slow and steady wins the race, till truth and talent claim their place.

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#14. Everything helped a little bit, at first; but nothing really helped.

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#15. I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that the women I've ended up loving the most have never been what I've thought of as my type, maybe because part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.

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#16. There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us.

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#17. You have infinite time here, and there are infinite things to do, but you still don't end up doing much of it. You do what you love most, over and over.

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#18. It was a good thing they were used to love, or they might have fainted from the size of the feeling.

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#19. 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.

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#20. Do you think why not is ultimately a better question than why? Why or why not?

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#21. Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

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#22. Pay him back, we really would have to do something

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#23. Didn't they realize how much interesting shit there was to see and do in this world if you just woke up at a normal fucking time like a normal fucking person?

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#24. He seemed to be blazing outside the lines of his own body, as if he were drawn in crayon by an excited five-year-old;

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#25. If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

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#26. Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

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#27. But no matter what their friends told them, they would always know what really happened. They just kept driving faster, and outran the rain.

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#28. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself, so that when you are in a relationship, the person will truly be compatible with the real you.

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#29. If you love something, let it go.
If you don't love something, definitely let it go.
Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

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#30. What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.

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#31. CHILD: "Why does carrot cake have the best icing?" MOTHER: "Because it needs the best icing." Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember

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#32. Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

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#33. I feel like I didn't earn these stories, I feel like they just happened to me.

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#34. '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.

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#35. 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.

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#36. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.

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#37. And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.

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#38. But nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

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#39. He started writing poetry again, but it didn't come as easily. It was hard now to get past the self-consciousness - the silliness, really - of being such a well-established adult applying himself, seriously, to such a youthful joy.

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#40. We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.

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#41. eople - even good, impressive people - always want something simple and unimpressive. Everything good and impressive that they do in their lives is a result of the impressive path they take to get what they want - not a result of wanting an impressive thing.

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#42. Why do u always post pics of ur food!?
He did it because it made him feel like he was eating his meals with more people.

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#43. John Grisham exhaled, feeling his breath leave his body as he did, like his wife's yoga instructor had taught him to do that one time. He never went back to that yoga instructor, but he still thought about that session sometimes.

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#44. I do not have very much office experience.

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#45. And good luck to you, tortoise," whispered the hare, leaning in close. "And just so you know - nobody knows this, and if you tell anyone I said it, I'll deny it - but I'm not really a hare. I'm a rabbit." This wasn't true - the hare just said it to fuck with him.

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#46. Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn't make it right.

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#47. All eyes are beautiful, I said, which is why it's such an easy compliment.

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#48. Do you think Johnny Depp should have drive his motorcycle off the mountain highway to his death? Why or why not?

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#49. It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

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#50. Love always won.

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#51. You meet a finite number of people in your life. It feels to you like it's infinite, but it's not. I think it's the biggest thing I can see that you can't.

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#52. But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

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#53. Discussion question: Do you think Julie should fuck the warlord? Why or why not?

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#54. The Battle Creek, Michigan, headquarters of Kellogg's looks like a spaceship built to look like a pyramid that was then hastily converted into a public library during a period of intergalactic peace.

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#55. I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

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