Albert Brooks Quotes
I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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What I wear onstage is so stylized and bold.
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I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends: They're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
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Something that bothered people about 'Dawson's Creek' but as a writer, I kind of dug: writing those kids as though they were college grad students. It was fun and liberating and made for a true sort of writer's show. It was a fun year for me, because I got to get out of debt with my first TV job, and I learned a ton.
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I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.
