Mel Brooks Quotes
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
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Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
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I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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To be a CEO is a calling. You should not do it because it is a job. It is a calling, and you have got to be involved in it with your head, heart and hands. Your heart has got to be in the job; you got to love what you do; it consumes you. And if you are not willing to get into the CEO job that way, there is no point getting into it.
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
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It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
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I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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I'm a late riser by my family's standards. Sleeping is a luxury because since I was young, I woke up very early to go ice-skating. So I'm really not a morning girl.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
