Albert Brooks Quotes

I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

Albert Brooks

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• I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Deep
  • Story

• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Struggle

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Education
  • Best
  • Poverty

• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Years
  • Right
  • Leg

• I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Career
  • Very
  • Been

• My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.

  

  Iman
  • Alien
  • Multicultural

• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Man
  • More

• The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Universe
  • Ocean
  • Self

• What's the last thing a drummer says in a band? 'Hey guys, why don't we try one of my songs?

  

  Dave Grohl Foo Fighters
  • Why
  • Band

• Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Life
  • Child
  • Mask

• Life goes on and the truth changes; this just happens to be the way life is. What was once true is often no longer true just a little while later. Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

  

  Brad Blanton
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Bullshit

• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Some

• Latinos that are in the industry writing and producing, they can't be afraid to go out there and say, 'I want my lead to be Latino. And I want to talk about this, I wanna write about that.' And Latinos as a whole, as a people in America, need to go out and support.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • People
  • Writing
  • America

• I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Life
  • Why
  • Period