James L. Brooks Quotes
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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I was a dancer until I was 19. I never had to worry about working out or what I ate. So I've really had to train myself to get down to the gym.
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If I'm doing something its coming from a kind heart.
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The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.
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We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on Italy, we finally chose Paris because it's supposed to be such a romantic city and because we both already spoke a bit of French.
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I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
