Albert Brooks Quotes
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
Quotes to Explore
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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From caring comes courage.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue.
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I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
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I've earned repose to heal the ravagesOf these angelic-looking savages.Oh, progeny playing by itselfIs a lonely little elf,But progeny in roistering batchesWould drive St. francis from here to Natchez.
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I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.
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I'm the audience's representative on earth.
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If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.
