Chelsea Martin Quotes

#1. I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

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#2. I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

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#3. I basically have two ways I start writing. Either I'll start with something about myself, or something that happened to me that seemed important, or I'll start with some idea I have that doesn't have much to do with me. But one will always lead to the other.

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#4. I like being around funny people.

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#5. My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

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#6. People choose the most flattering photos of themselves to put on Facebook. Text messages can be vague and confusing. But conversations are confusing too. And some people wear lots of makeup. I think it's just hard to be a person.

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#7. I think funniness is a sign of intelligence.

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#8. I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday ... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.

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#9. There is a lot of stuff I write that makes it seem like my intention is to make people think I'm speaking about myself entirely, and it is my intention to make people think that, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's what it is.

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#10. I don't really like to write anywhere but my own apartment. I send a lot of text messages to myself as email when I'm not at home. My texts are usually like, "If I ever break up with my boyfriend I want to date a very angry rapper."

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#11. I don't know how to talk about technology in a positive or negative way because it's just the way the world is to me. It seems like talking about the advantages of breathing through holes in our face instead of holes that lead more directly to the lungs.

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#12. I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.

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#13. The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.

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