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If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

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Andy Richter
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 28
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I don't waste a lot of time on profound embarrassment. I have always been somewhat the same person. I can think of maybe particular items of clothing that I think, Oh God, I used to wear that? But nothing serious. It's not like for a while I became some sort of goth wannabe. I've always pretty much been me.
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If somebody's looking at pictures of naked people and you go, 'Oh I don't want to see that,' you're lying. Cause naked people are always interesting. Always. Whether they're beautiful, or naked or 500 pounds.
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I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.
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But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.
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