Marc Maron Quotes
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I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
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As a performer you are being used to keep people watching so the commercial endorsements that support the network can be seen by as many people as possible.
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For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
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I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.
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When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
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Hopefully standup will become special again.
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Do you think Beethoven had any inkling in even the darkest recesses of his unconscious, when he was deaf and sweating over his Fifth Symphony, that one day it would emit from some idiot’s pocket, and the response would be 'Fuck, it’s my mom'?
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We certainly showed those Afghanis for what those Saudis did. But hey, can’t shit where you eat, you know?
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The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
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I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
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The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
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Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
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I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.
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Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
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It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.
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Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
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We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
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When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
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On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.
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I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.
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It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.