Albert Brooks Quotes
'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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I want to have a long career.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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I came, I saw, God conquered.
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'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.
