Albert Brooks Quotes
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.Albert Brooks
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith -
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
Daley Thompson -
I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos -
As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
Gabriela Sabatini -
There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
Natalie Dormer -
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
Rahm Emanuel -
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
Ted Nelson -
I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
Victor Webster -
I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
Olivia Wilde -
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady Gaga -
I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
Patrick Modiano -
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah bint Saud -
My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
Halsey -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
Laura Marano -
I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Most horror films fail to scare me.
Martin Henderson -
I think visually... so, even when I'm writing a play, I'm envisioning it.
James Lapine -
Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.
Alison Mosshart -
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Albert Brooks