James L. Brooks Quotes
In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
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I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.
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I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
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I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.
