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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. "
Marc Maron
Possible
Watching
You
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" Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation. "
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" I was also a big Woody Allen fan. When I got into college I listened to Lenny Bruce but it's taken me years to put him into context historically and really get what he did. "
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Context
Years
College
" Hopefully standup will become special again. "
Marc Maron
Again
Special
Become
" 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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Always
Clown
Comedy
" 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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Life
Live
Darkness
" 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? "
Marc Maron
You
Train
Look
" On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement. "
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Level
Appearance
Product
" 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. "
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Doing
Lost
Think
" The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. "
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Easy
Create
Television
" 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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Always
Taste
Inspired
" For my next trick I will make everyone understand me. "
Marc Maron
Will
Next
Me
" When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate. "
Marc Maron
Devil
Deal
Artists
" Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground. "
Marc Maron
Right
Ground
Fly
" 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. "
Marc Maron
People
Control
Minds
" When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon. "
Marc Maron
Buddy
Loved
Young
" When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records. "
Marc Maron
Older
Had
George
" We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. "
Marc Maron
Need
Our
Freedom
" The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day. "
Marc Maron
I Am
Words
Day
" In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. "
Marc Maron
Seventies
Great
You
" 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. "
Marc Maron
Uniqueness
Development
Comedy
" Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah. "
Marc Maron
Show
Business
Hard
" There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity. "
Marc Maron
You
Hard
Integrity
" I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now. "
Marc Maron
Living
Now
Hallucination
" The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. "
Marc Maron
Difficult
Collective
Become