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The detail in this has been
so beautiful and so amazing.

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My job's been really easy because even
before I was told about this interview,

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I was just looking at the crib-a-crab
and I was like, "Man, that's beautiful.

4
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And that's bright
and that's what they would have had.�

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Miss Heisenberg.

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Thank you for coming down so early.

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Tammany had a political office
on East 14th Street.

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But we decided as we went along that
you had an office close to Five Points.

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14th Street feels like
pretty far away for the time.

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Although we did talk about at one point

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to give you an office
in a police station.

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But we felt that
we needed to elevate him

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and give him some real stature

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so we chose to give him
quite a beautiful office

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How long will I be your pawn?

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Is that how you see our collaboration?
-Is that what you call this?

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That's the problem
with you Anglo-Saxons,

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you lack a talent for grandeur.

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This department's
the real historian in these pieces.

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Everyone's an artist
and everyone has their homework to do

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and it makes a big difference.

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That's a lot of fun, that's what's
the most fun about a period piece,

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is actually doing the history, you are
looking back and seeing what was there,

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what would be there, also
the screenwriters are doing great.

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They're really guiding this completely,
right through the whole storyline.

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They make it so easy
for us to just look it up.

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You know,
"This is supposed to be here..."

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They know their stuff, deeply.

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I've learned a lot on this job.

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Let's just say you and I
make great business partners.

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The world is our oyster, my dearest Eva.

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He's a very intellectual guy, Donovan.

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But he's just obsessed with this notion

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that the upper classes
look at us like we're animals.

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Make no mistake,

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our critics partake
in the same recreations,

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but to them, we're scum.

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We're the enemy.

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We're the barbarians
at the gates of Rome.

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As for me, I see them as what stands
in the way of our rising in society.

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And so I think he almost tries
so hard to go overboard

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with taste and class
and elegance and refinement

43
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because he's so afraid
that people will pull his covers

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at any time and just go,
"You're just a dirty Irish immigrant.�

45
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I mean, we have Lincoln's portrait.

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Shakespeare's books and they were
requested by the producers

47
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so we managed to buy them.

48
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I think the first one was almost
worth several thousand dollars.

49
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This is pretty amazing.

50
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You took advantage
of your power and wealth.

51
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I don't intend to gloat
but I do like to win.

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We'll have certain props that are
specific to the particular episode.

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We have some charts that we were
talking about an aqueduct being built

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in this upcoming episode
so we'll have charts

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showing the streets
and where the aqueducts can go in

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but that's very specific.

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The Board of Alderman vote
should not be the problem.

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Being underbid on the project,
that is the danger.

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There's no detail too minute
that isn't taken care of.

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That's pretty mind-blowing.

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I loved this show
when I saw it as just a fan last year.

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I had a little bit
of actor envy, as they say,

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like, "Ooh, that's a cool world.
That'd be fun to get in there.�

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And now, to be here, it's amazing.