I don't know how much I can say, because I don't want my wife to be mad at me, only after I got married was I like,' Mollie Gates, I'm sorry, but we have to get nontraditional here.' To Mollie Gates credit, instead of saying...' I'm out,' Mollie Gates was like,' Let's figure this out.'.

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I make very basic country rustic furniture.

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I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.

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T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

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I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what Silicon Valley has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software.

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Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

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In order to put it into perspective, as an actor, it's super hard to get on a TV show. If you get on one, it's super hard for that show to be reasonably successful. All of that, on paper, seems pretty special. It's the sum of the parts, really. To roll the dice and come up with this particular show is pretty fortunate. I'm very happy about Silicon Valley series. It's changed everything for me.

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I'd always thought I was a romantic and that when I fall in love, that stuff fades away. It does for some years — enough to be like,' I should get married, and I'll be different,' but it's part of me. If that's part of your being and it feels important to you, find a way to explore it, because repression sucks.

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It's a perpetual state of management and communication, to the point where it's like,' All right, we've got to stop. Chill,' i'm gas, and she's brakes. This is actually the premise for a comedy series we're writing together.

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There's all these little bubbles of nerddom.

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I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

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I'm cool as a cucumber, baby.

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It's not as if I've never been awkward myself. I'm a big gamer, so I've had access to that type of personality. I used to go to these LAN parties; that was before high-speed Internet. The only way you could get lag-free gaming was to haul these huge computers to people's houses.

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I wish I was more industrious, but I don't necessarily have that drive.

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I grew up in a hippy town, so I did my playing outdoors and skiing and all that, but then I also had my nerd friends that I went and hosted LAN parties with, get my 'Counter-Strike' on.

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Just, you know, respect animals and the planet. And don't vote Trump.

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I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.

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Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

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I'm more nerdy in a sense of, like, video games and Dungeons and Dragons and Renaissance Faire. But not nerdy in a sense that I know how to create apps.

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Part of me wants a bunch of jocks to go to Comic-Con and call them all dweebs so they can be like, 'Pump the brakes a little bit.' But that said, it's all positive. It's just, of course, I'm going to find some cynicism in it.

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I don't want to make some super cliche comment about how much more acceptable gaming is. I think it was always acceptable for me and my peers. But I think it's become more so in pop culture, media, stuff like that - people with money have discovered that they can make money by marketing to us.

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