Demetri Martin Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.
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I'm really just looking for an excuse to get in shape, so if someone could send me a role for a superhero movie, I'll get in shape, then you can just give it to someone else.
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I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.
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It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.
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I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.
