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.

  

  Zachary Gordon
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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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• 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.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Me
  • Travel

• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Want
  • Career

• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Character
  • Learn
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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.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Good
  • Past
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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.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Good
  • Anger

• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Like
  • Silence
  • Word

• 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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
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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.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Men
  • High
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
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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.

  

  Victoria Moran
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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.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• I mean the future has become old fashioned.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Future
  • Old
  • Become

• I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Good
  • Me
  • Drink

• When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

  

  Luis Figo
  • Different
  • Important
  • Country

• Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • People
  • Respect

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time

• '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.

  

  Albert Brooks
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