Albert Brooks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.
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The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
