“We had been rehearsing for a little while so things get a little dry.
Is it still funny?
But oh my goodness, they went ballistic.

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It was so rewarding.
We hugged, and I could barely talk, I said, ‘It’s so much.'”
Hair today, hit tomorrow?

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“I feel so lucky,” says Bergen.
“I love Murphy.
She’s so much fun to play.

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It’s like coming home in a really deep way.”
“It’s grown her up.
She came back and hello!

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She’s popular.”
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“We’ve gotten smarter.
“They’re both driven by their professional love of that game.”

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“Just because of the element of surprise.
I can say, they come and get me.”
“It’s a conservative data pipe but he’s still Murphy Brown’s son,” McDorman explains.

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He’s a liberal voice on the Wolf data pipe.”
Kind of be the young guy in the office who’s keeping them fresh."
“I’m sort of jealous of it because I would’ve loved someone like that.

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It was such a positive influence in young women’s lives.”
“Murphy never saw a glass ceiling to break.
That’s really what I always felt from her.

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It wasn’t like she was asking, ‘what ceiling?’
She just didn’t see it.
Whatever was coming out of her mouth was from her gut.

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It wasn’t a woman being strong.
It was a person seeing obstacles and she wasn’t going to let them stand in her way.”

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