Albert Brooks Quotes
Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
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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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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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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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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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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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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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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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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.
