James L. Brooks Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida -
The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
Mads Mikkelsen -
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell -
They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
Imran Khan -
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro -
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White -
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Zebulon Pike -
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
Rand Paul -
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
Hannibal Buress
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
Federica Mogherini -
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills -
But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes -
The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
Caitlin Stasey -
I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
Acker Bilk
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If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.
Gabriel Iglesias -
It's really hard to find parts that challenge me as an actor these days. At this point in my career, I feel like I can just sleepwalk through most of my roles and still do a better job than 90 percent of the actors out there.
Zach Braff -
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
Curtis Hanson -
Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?
Pablo Neruda -
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally.
James L. Brooks