James L. Brooks Quotes
In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
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Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.
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There was no doubt what must be done—the law was clear. Written centuries ago, the Lex Caesare decreed that if any woman died while pregnant, the living child was to be immediately cut out of her abdomen. This poor girl, whose name no one knew, was certain to die; but the baby inside her lived and must be given a chance to survive. Selene was fearful. She had never before performed a Caesarean-law operation.
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In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.
