Brett Gelman Quotes
What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
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'A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.'
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I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.
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The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.
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What a great way to make some money is just fine somebody $300 if their phone rings in the theatre. That'll make them remember to turn it off.
