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Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

Demetri Martin

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Demetri Martin
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: May 25
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Score Composer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
New York City
New York
Demetri Evan Martin
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Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.
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My policy is 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.'
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I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.
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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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How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.
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I think it's cool when an ex-girlfriend becomes an XL girlfriend.
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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
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There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.
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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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If I could control the behavior of fat guys I would make them ride mopeds more often.
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The sofa is the enemy of productivity.
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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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They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.
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As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
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Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.
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I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'
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I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
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If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
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Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.
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