Albert Brooks Quotes
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.
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I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
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China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
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It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
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I head a nation of a million presidents.
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
