James L. Brooks Quotes
'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It's wild.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.
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In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Fage does not make great yogurt.
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There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
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I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibility as well and one I relish.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.
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I never want movie theaters go away. It is the greatest time out on the town. You go out, it's a great place to go, great location, great hang, great date, good place to be with friends. But as an actor who works hard at making movies, I am glad that no matter what people can see your movie on. It's hard to keep a theater for long time; there are so many movies, so when you leave a theater, you're just glad there's a life for your movie.
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I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.
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Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
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'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over again? It's wild.
