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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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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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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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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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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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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If you're in the White House, it's your house, and you can invite whatever friend you want.
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My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'
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It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.
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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.
