Brett Gelman Quotes
One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
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Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
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I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.
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I'm a huge fan of film and always have been.
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
