Mel Brooks Quotes
Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
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Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.
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To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
