Mel Brooks Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.
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Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.
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No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
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I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
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I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.
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Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.
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I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.
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As soon as the soul has been made to perceive that a thing can conduct it to that which it loves supremely, it must inevitably embrace it with joy.
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People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.
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Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with someone's gloomy great-grandfather looking down on you?
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Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.
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He who hesitates is poor.
