James L. Brooks Quotes
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.James L. Brooks
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
Adam McKay -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
I was a tomboy.
Rachel Weisz -
A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
Pamela Meyer -
Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
Laura Moser -
I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
Patrice O'Neal
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins -
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
Sam Tsui -
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
Ted Cruz -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Naomi Watts -
I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
Carl Honore -
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
Lana Wachowski -
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
Harlan Coben -
All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
Jack Kemp
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B. J. Novak -
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.
Ralph Ellison -
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.
Jeff Buckley -
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang -
I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles.
Doug Hoffman -
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
James L. Brooks