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The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

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Dylan Moran
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 3
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Dylan William Moran
Life
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Witty
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I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?
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We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.
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I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.
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I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.
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I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.
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Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know mobile phone tumours - far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation.
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[Washington] is the political capital. It's essentially a big office.
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Why do I even dare to think I could dream I could imagine I could hope?!
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Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.
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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
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I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
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You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.
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He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.
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The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.
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In my personal life, my family makes me laugh more than anybody I think that is the same for everybody. I certainly hope it is.
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I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
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Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!
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The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
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If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.
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