Albert Brooks Quotes
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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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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.
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When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started reading up on magical theory and immediately blended that with what my brothers had shown me.
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You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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The podcast most likely to encourage you to fully appreciate your food is the episode of BBC World Service's 'The Food Chain' in which Antonio Carluccio talks to Emily Thomas about his life in five dishes.
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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
