Brett Gelman Quotes
I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
Brett Gelman
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
Adam Lambert
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
Otto Heinrich Warburg
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
Jackie Chan
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I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
Paloma Faith
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
Carlo Ratti
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
Nas
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
Natasha Trethewey
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
Malcolm X
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If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
Daniel Boulud
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One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.
Dan Flavin
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I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.
Scott Speedman
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti
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I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
Brett Gelman
