James L. Brooks Quotes

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'

James L. Brooks

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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

John Bolton

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I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

Jeb Bush

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With me being a sportsman and being an icon who people know, if I can even send a little message across which will maybe help a lot of people, I'm going to do that.

Amir Khan

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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Steve Martin

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Acting is fun. I especially like the action sequences. That's what I do best.

Rob Van Dam

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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

Robert Benchley

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If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

Martin Parr

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The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

Mitch McConnell

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I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.

Louis Theroux

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I like going back and writing fiction.

Julia Sweeney

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The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

Jason Fried

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I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don't mix. So I try to fight those demons.

Chris Farley

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