Mel Brooks Quotes
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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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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Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
