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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L.A.'s hippies are actually quite scary - more like Hell's Angels than the Haight-Ashbury hippies of San Francisco.
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A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.
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I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
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Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
