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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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human
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One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
