Mel Brooks Quotes
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
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I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.
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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
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I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
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Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
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Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.
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Many new lovers and spouses struggle to reconcile themselves with their partners' relationship history, but it's an insecurity I left behind in my 20s.
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I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.
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Excuse me, is this England?
