James L. Brooks Quotes
I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
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Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.
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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.
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An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.
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I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
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I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.
