Demetri Martin Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.
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I love all things Christmas.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
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At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.
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If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.
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We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful."
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I saw a transvestite wearing a T-shirt that said 'Guess'.
