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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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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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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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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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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I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.
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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
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It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.
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In peace or in war I have stood by thy side - My country, for thee I have lived, would have died! But I am cast off, my career now is run, And I wander abroad like the prodigal son - Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread, The fallen - despised - will again go ahead.
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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.
