Demetri Martin Quotes
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.
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I hate the word sexy.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.
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I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'
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There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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I want to become one of the best players that ever played the game.
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Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.
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I feel just as much a part of 'War Eternal' as I do 'Will to Power.'
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I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how.
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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
