39 Quotes by Demetri Martin about thinking

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    I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

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    I don't know what the long form of OK is. I wanna think it's okie dokie. 'I'm okie dokie. I'm a little shaken up, but I'm okie dokie.' 'The good news is, she's okie dokie. The surgery went fine.'

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    Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

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    I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

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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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    There's an old Russian saying that goes some way or another. I don't know it. I don't speak Russian. But sometimes I think about it and wonder if it's relevant to what I'm going through at the time. Probably not. I mean what do Russian know about hunger, anyway?

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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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    I think they should put pies on the fronts of trains, so that when they hit something it's at least a little bit funny.

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