Albert Brooks Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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In San Francisco, I eat halal, which is kind of like Muslim kosher, and there's this one Thai restaurant, and it's right next to the 'Great American Hall'. I'm there all the time whenever I'm in town; that's my spot.
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In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.
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Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
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One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.
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Most people don´t like to think, period.
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Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.
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I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
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I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
