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.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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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.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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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.
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I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
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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.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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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.
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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.'
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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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.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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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.
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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.
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You can't just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.
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Drunk people run stop signs, high people wait for them to turn green
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We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.
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I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.
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It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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.
