"D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people."

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Source : "Not My Job: We Quiz Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse On Peaches". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 31, 2018.

Benjamin E. Sasse

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“Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.”
“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.”
“I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.”
“Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.”
“My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.”
“I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.”
“We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it.”
“I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.”

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