B. J. Novak Quotes

• Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

  B. J. Novak

  Impossible, Daydreaming, Easy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  B. J. Novak

  Let It Go, Who Cares, Care

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.181, Vintage

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• Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

  B. J. Novak

  Long, Remember, Ends

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.56, Vintage

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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 is just a party trick.

  B. J. Novak

  Party, Years, Brave

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.223, Vintage

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• Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

  B. J. Novak

  Regret, Perfectionism, Plus

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.174, Vintage

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• 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. 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.

  B. J. Novak

  Thinking, Differences, Feelings

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.78, Vintage

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• 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.

  B. J. Novak

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  B. J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.16, Vintage

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• 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?

  B. J. Novak

  Basketball, Reality, People

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.145, Vintage

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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

  Writing, Laughing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

  B. J. Novak

  Sound, Battered Women, Battered

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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

  Type, Hopefully, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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, World, Way

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• 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.

  B. J. Novak

  Perfect, Type, Expected

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.68, Vintage

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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

  Opportunity, People, Design

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• 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.

  B. J. Novak

  Love You, Lines, Thanks

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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

  Real, Air, Office

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I'm a believer in trusting the director.

  B. J. Novak

  Directors, Believer

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2009.

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• I do not have very much office experience.

  B. J. Novak

  Office

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Watches, Comedy, Glad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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