Brett Gelman Quotes
I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
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I was a really big kid.
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The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.
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People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
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I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.
