Demetri Martin Quotes
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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I've used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn't have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it - it's only clothes.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'
