James L. Brooks Quotes

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

James L. Brooks

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• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • First
  • China

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • American
  • Guy

• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Science
  • Reading

• I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Live
  • Try
  • Medicine

• I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Dark Side

• Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Ending

• I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Care
  • Because

• Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Good
  • Love

• I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • School
  • Loving

• I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Future
  • Day
  • Journey

• The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • World
  • Travel
  • Inspiration

• I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dog

• You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Career

• You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Dream
  • Chance
  • Yourself

• Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Expectations

• Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Humble
  • Data

• It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Doubted
  • Enigma
  • Construct

• Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Health

• Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Real
  • Remember
  • War

• That big muscular frame of his held plenty of animal courage, but helped him to no decision when the dangers to be braved were such as could neither be knocked down nor throttled.

  

  George Eliot
  • Decision
  • Courage
  • Animal

• If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

  

  James L. Brooks