B. J. Novak Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• 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?
• 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.
• 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…
• Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.
• Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.
• Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
• Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
• Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
• I do not have very much office experience.
• I'm a believer in trusting the director.
• There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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