James L. Brooks Quotes

The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.

James L. Brooks

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The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Joe Jamail

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I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.

Jesmyn Ward

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Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.

Jesmyn Ward

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Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Maurizio Cattelan

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I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I was voted three times Germany's national player of the year, and that is decided by the fans. That shows the fans are there for me and believe in me.

Mesut Ozil

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I went to pick up my nephew from primary school, and one of the teachers there stopped me and said, 'My son listens to you.' That's quite an awkward thing.

Stormzy

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Art is significant deformity.

Roger Fry

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Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

Robert Wagner

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The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Marty Feldman

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It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

Lorrie Fair

WantClientsMatterHandleHow

I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.

Lisa Ling

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