Brett Gelman Quotes
I think the thing that really started setting my career on the course that it's on is when I did 1000 Cats on Funny or Die Presents on HBO. That's what I feel like kind of got me a little bit more into the system.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.
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I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
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You can try to plan your career, but not marriage.
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I think the thing that really started setting my career on the course that it's on is when I did 1000 Cats on Funny or Die Presents on HBO. That's what I feel like kind of got me a little bit more into the system.
