Albert Brooks Quotes
If I start a film of my own, then what I eliminate is acting in other people's movies. Because once I start, and I go raise the money, it's about two and a half or three years, and I can't stop. I have people hired. I can't say, 'Ooh there's a good part called 'Drive'; I'll see you in three months.'
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
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I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.
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If I start a film of my own, then what I eliminate is acting in other people's movies. Because once I start, and I go raise the money, it's about two and a half or three years, and I can't stop. I have people hired. I can't say, 'Ooh there's a good part called 'Drive'; I'll see you in three months.'
