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If you get to be on TV and you get to be on HBO,

then you better be a thoroughbred. You better cross that finish line bloody. Like you

can't give up. You don't turn your back. You don't give up on details. you never compromise, you fight for the rain, you offer to pay for

it yourself if you have to, no detail is too small, nothing should be ignored, everything matters, everything matters.

And that's how you make really good television, that's when you get people watching an

episode over and over.

During the initial stages of the show,

did you used to think about how much of you is Miranda?

Yes, I thought that I had very little in common with her.

I felt like, you know, we both lead with our brain and apart from that there was almost nothing.

She was single, I was not, I was a mother, she was not. We're both career people, but her kind of driven ambition was not something that I had.

She was incredibly confrontational, I was incredibly conciliatory, but I think what

happened over the course of the six years was they started including more and more of me in her and I think she had an

effect on me. The whole you know Mr Big thing has got real legs to it for better or worse. I've stopped even thinking

that I'm going to outrun it and replace it with another role because no matter

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