Brett Gelman Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.
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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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France can certainly accommodate foreign people on its soil long-term, those with foreign citizenship... as long as they respect French laws and French values, which is often a problem on the immigration issue. It's not really a problem with Israel on this topic.
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The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.
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I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.
