Brett Gelman Quotes
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.'
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In those days I was a slip of a thing with a divine figure and a face I was certain drove men wild. There is no doubt that I was the most conceited thing that ever lived. I simply adored Dagmar Godowsky and it was a passion that has withstood the test of time.
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I really am not that hairy on my body. It's weird.
