James L. Brooks Quotes
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
