Demetri Martin Quotes - Page 19

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• Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.

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  Funny, Humor, Laughing

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• I didn't play music, nobody in my family had an instrument or played music, we didn't even have any books at my house. I think about it and I'm like, I don't know how I climbed out of there.

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  Book, Thinking, Play

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

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  Moving, Thinking, Progress

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• I travel alone so much, and the first thought is to grab the damn phone. In airports, just look around. Nobody looks at anybody, or even out the window. It's obvious we can't live without it anymore, and as a comic on the road the phone is an essential tool. It's probably doing more good than bad for me, but it does make me sad that those of us who grew up without mobile phones, we know what we're missing.

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  Missing, Window, Comic

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Hard

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• I never set out to do a sketch show.

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  Shows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love Steven Wright.

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• I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

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  Grateful, Average, Hendrix

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.

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  Track, Important, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV.

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  Sports, Real, Games

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2012

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• And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

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  Actors, Peter, All Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe.

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  Waiting, Important, Helpful

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2012

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• People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

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  Im Sorry, Squirrels, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.

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  Men, Enemy, Target

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

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• I think it would be worse to get mauled by a dancing bear than just a regular bear because you can't totally blame the dancing bear.

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  Thinking, Dancing, Would Be

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2013

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• I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

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  Feelings, Snapshots, Kind

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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  Writing, Tv Shows, Long

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

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• When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

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  Potatoes, Couches, Fries

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2011

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• I am sometimes referred to as Excuse Me in an annoyed tone of voice, because apparently I am in the way. I am so sorry. I am supposed to be some sort of mind reader, I guess. I am moving out of the way now as slowly as I possibly can. I am doing this and there's nothing you can do about it.

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  Sorry, Moving, Voice

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I am everything and I am nothing. I am just kidding; I am not everything and nothing. That would be ridiculous. I am just everything.

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  Would Be, Ridiculous, Just Kids

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

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  Kids, Illustration, Drawing

  "The Art of Being Demetri Martin". Interview with Jacob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes.

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  Bmw, Interesting, Car

  Twitter post from Nov 04, 2013

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• Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.

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  Halloween, Years, Giving

  Twitter post from Oct 31, 2013

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• But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

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  Dream, Take Me

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

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  Funny, Dream, Thinking

  "The Art of Being Demetri Martin". Interview with Claire Brooks and Jacob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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