Mel Brooks Quotes

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

Mel Brooks

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I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

Andrew Motion

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

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I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

Max Irons

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It has taken centuries to create the freest, fairest, most prosperous societies in the world, and there have been lots of studies about this.

Ann Coulter

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Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Robert Englund

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We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.

Tom Cotton

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I'm a very stimulated person.

Julia Michaels

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I used to game a lot, and I used to game a little too hard.

Jason Day

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When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

David Wain

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There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview, often with microphone trailing.

Craig Brown

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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Aristotle

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