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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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
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'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
