Albert Brooks Quotes
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
