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.

  

  Fran Kranz
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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.

  

  Patrick Henry
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  • Freedom
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• In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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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.

  

  Carly Pope
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• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
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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.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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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.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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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.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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• It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

  

  O. Henry
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• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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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.

  

  Barbara Sher
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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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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• I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
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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.

  

  Yelawolf
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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.

  

  Harland Williams
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• As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.

  

  John Lithgow
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• There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

  

  Jean-Marie Messier

• The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

  

  Karen Traviss
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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.

  

  Albert Brooks
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