Albert Brooks Quotes
Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
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This work thing really has a specific purpose for me, which is to be an independent human being who doesn't rely on a guy or a family to be able to support myself. It's not about showing somebody that I'm successful. It's about having a wider breadth of option.
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It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.
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I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.
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Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
