Mel Brooks Quotes
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
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I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
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Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.
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Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.
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I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.
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LSD as Adolf Hitler: Heil Baby!
