Mel Brooks Quotes
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Women are sacred.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
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I didn't come out and roll from job to job - my first year was really tough. I had to work as a teaching assistant for an agency; I ran a pancake stall in Dulwich Market. I taught drama classes and ran my own workshops. I applied for every advert on Gumtree there possibly was.
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Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.
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I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
