Demetri Martin Quotes
When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I want to live quietly.
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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
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I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart. I'm your worrier, remember?" "I'll never forget. I promise. I'm your High Priestess and you've pledged yourself to me. That means you have my heart, too." "Then both of us better stay safe. A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it.
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Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.
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When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.
