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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
Demetri Martin
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Demetri Martin
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 25
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New York City
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Demetri Evan Martin
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I love motor learning because it's very basic and primal. A lot of what I like to learn correlates with the opposite of what gets you laid. I can ride a unicycle and I can juggle. These are unimpressive things to know.
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Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
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The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them.
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The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.
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I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business.
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I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.
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My friend has hand soap that smells like coconut. It's nice. Unless your hands are dirty from coconuts.
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I'm a producer on my show, which is great, but it's also kind of a mixed blessing because there's so much responsibility. Everything is a decision. You have to worry about the money, you have to worry about daylight, who we're going to cast and if this location doesn't work out, what are we going to do?
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My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified and valued.
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Surprise parties are strange 'cause people jump up and they yell the word, 'surprise' at the party. I came home and you emerged from my furniture. You don't have to tell me how to feel. I don't need a hint.
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Planning trip around the globe, that is in my room.
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A couple weeks ago I was on the street and I saw an ugly pregnant lady, and I just thought, 'Good for you.'
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I was eating some candy and looked on the wrapper, and it said made from natural and artificial flavors. You could just say flavors.
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Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation?
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If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.
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To some I am known as Chief. And these are usually people who work in Radio Shack or try to sell me shoes. To others I am known as Buddy. These are people who dwell in bars and wonder if I’ve got a problem or what it is that I am “looking at.” And to still others, who are in that same bar, standing just off to the side, I am “Get Him!
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You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you.
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Why are there not positive mysteries? It's always who stole the diamond, or who killed the butler? How about... who made cookies, somebody cleaned my room.
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I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're crappy kids.'
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Popcorn is one of the only situations in which you eat the result of an explosion.
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