Albert Brooks Quotes
One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
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We should not be acting precipitously to undermine the basic tenet of this program, that has worked well for 70 years by providing a defined, guaranteed benefit.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.
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I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.
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One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.
