James L. Brooks Quotes
Nothing is a matter of course when you get to do your own thing. It's always a gift that can stop giving and probably will.
James L. Brooks
Quotes to Explore
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
Jack Kerouac
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
J. Michael Straczynski
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
Gary Player
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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I'm painfully middle class.
Valerie Harper
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
Rachel Zoe
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
Rainn Wilson
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
Yayoi Kusama
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
Fanny Brice
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Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.
K. D. Lang
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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
Gautama Buddha
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
Eddie Murphy
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As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
Dylan Thomas
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Nothing is a matter of course when you get to do your own thing. It's always a gift that can stop giving and probably will.
James L. Brooks
