Albert Brooks Quotes
Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'
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I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
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The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
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Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
