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Clips from Ned Rifle

"Two single beds."
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"That O.K. with you?"
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"[ Water running ]"
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"Ned: Where's that comedy coach of yours?"
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"I fired him."
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"Yeah?"
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"I don't think Zach knows the first thing about being funny."
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"And you do?"
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"You appear to doubt my comic chops."
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"Simon, what are you doing?"
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"I want to be popular and liked, like everybody else."
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"But you're not popular, and it takes most people a while to"
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"get to know you before they like you, and once they like you,"
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"they tend to love you."
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"Yeah, but I can change that."
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"Why?"
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"Have you read my poetry?"
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"Yeah, well, no."
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"Not really, but I'm not that into poetry."
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"But that's just it."
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"Shouldn't I be doing something that a hip, young guy like"
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"yourself is interested in?"
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"Am I hip?"
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"Well, I don't know. Aren't you? You're young."
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"Simon, if you're all set on chucking poetry, don't waste"
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"your time trying to be a stand-up comic."
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"Set you eyes on the straight and narrow, and give"
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"yourself to Jesus."
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"You're not just trying to be funny now, are you?"
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"No, of course not."
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"Well, this is new."
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"You've found God?"
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"Look, I have a friend downstairs who wants to meet you."
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"Is this an intervention?"
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"A what?"
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"Am I going to be baptized or something?"
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"No. She knows all about your poetry."
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"She wants to give you a copy of her dissertation."
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"It's the least you can do, I think, really."
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"O.K., bring her up."
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"Tomorrow. She's sleeping."
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"Now, any ideas about where my father might be?"
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"Seattle."
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"Hundreds of people follow my blog, and many of them write"
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"in and post comments."
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"Henry, who seems to work at, or used to work at a certain"
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"bookstore in Seattle, writes in weekly, and assassinates my character"
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"in increasingly elaborate ways."
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"I think more people follow my blog to read him than to see"
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"my stand-up routine, honestly."
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"You're not going to try and save Henry for Jesus, are you?"
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"And what if I am?"
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"[ Door latch clicks ]"
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"O Lord, give unto thy servant that peace that the"
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"world cannot give, that my heart may be set to obey"
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"thy commandments,"
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"That through thee I remain constant of purpose"
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"and fearless of the enemy."
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"Lighten my darkness, O Lord, I beseech thee, and by thy"
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"mercy defend me from the perils and dangers of this"
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"night, for the love of thy Holy Son, our Savior,"
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"Jesus Christ."
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"Amen."
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"He said 10:00?"
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"Any time after 10:00."
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"How do I look?"
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"Great. What are you all dolled-up for?"
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"You're just going to be talking about poetry and literature."
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"I don't look like a slut, do I?"
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"No. Really?"
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"Yeah, it's just I don't-- well, I don't know anything"
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"about literature."
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"That's right, you don't."
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"See you this afternoon."
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"Good luck."
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"She went up to the poet laureate 10 minutes ago."
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"We're O.K. with the room, right?"
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"Two more nights."
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"O.K., thanks."
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"Want me to tell her anything?"
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"No. Make sure she knows the room's hers."
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"La Guardia Airport. Man: O.K."
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"I've always read the poems, even, and especially the later ones,"
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"as an evocation of the joys and sorrows of influence."
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"The evolution of one's own manner of perceiving"
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"and inevitably expressing the world to one's self and to"
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"others the sadness of breaking with the cherished attitudes"
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"inherited from the friendly, encouraging, but ultimately"
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"limited sources that must be outgrown."
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"Please go on."
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"I recognize that voice-- the tempter, the challenger,"
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"the seducer, the friend."
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"Yes."
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"I use the term "antagonist" to start with,"
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"but it's more fluid than that."
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"I could never find the right word for how he feels"
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"to be with."
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"It's actually more like being inspired by the wind,"
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"the rain, a sickness, some other uncontrollable"
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"element--demonic."
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"You seem to know Henry better than I do."
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"It's expressed better in the body of the text itself,"
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"but that is, I think, it generally."
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"It was difficult to get out from the shadow he cast."
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"There was always something apt about his most unreasonable"
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"ranting and raving that kept me from dismissing his"
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"input entirely--"
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"his own failures, his own ineptitude, his delusions."
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"These, I came to see, were my lens onto the world."
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"It provided a material out of which to shape an image"
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"of that world as I endured it."
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"Endured it?"
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"I merely endured the world until my friend, Henry, showed me"
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"one could do otherwise."
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"It was the same with me."
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"Excuse me?"
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"I mean, of course, through the reading"
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"of your poetry, how you rendered him and his"
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"influence upon you."
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