James L. Brooks Quotes
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.
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All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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It's kind of good to do things while you're young.
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As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
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I want you to be mine, again, babyI know my lifestyle is driving you crazyAye, I cannot see myself without you
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
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We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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Chi poco pensa, molto erra.
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There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
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His decision to study the law had got him as far as hiring Twelve Angry Men from a video shop.
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Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.
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When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
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One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
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I'm a journalism junkie.
