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James L. Brooks Quotes

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

James L. Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1940

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I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

Jewel

Life Work Music Hope Art My Life

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

Andrew Solomon

Travel Yourself Limits Exercise Own

I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

John Oliver

Good Decision Me Think Career Said

A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate to think that anyone thought I was coming to preach. But art and music open up things that you can't put into words. It's about bringing joy when you go out there.

Stephen Hough

Music Art Hate Walk Words Joy

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.

Stuart Scott

Live Die You Lose Why Mean

I don't go to the cinema much.

Tom Felton

Cinema Go Much

The multi-party agreement, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA), created the Government of National Unity (GNU) that has acted as Zimbabwe's governing institution since 2009.

Roy Bennett

Government Unity Political Agreement

We are Disney, in a sense. When you've been there for 20 years, there's a certain heart and soul to one of those films, and you inhabit that to a certain degree. So if it feels true to you, then your audience will hopefully go for it.

Roy Conli

Heart Soul You Go True Go For It

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Mantle

Life Game You Know Playing Been

There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.

Lucy Dacus

Life Work Love Art Me Sadness

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Jonathan Carroll

Someone Furniture Why Boston Head

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

Christina Applegate

Mother Think Friends Manager I Think