James L. Brooks Quotes
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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I hate celebrating birthdays.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
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I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died. In vain they schem'd, in vain they bled! They had no poet, and are dead.
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Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
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Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake there shackle.
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These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.
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I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
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As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
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I'm a little bit of a germophobe - not that bad!
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Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
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If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
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Making an authentic film about anything is difficult.
