Albert Brooks Quotes

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1947

Topics

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I've been on the telly for a long while. I've never saved any money or anything. I'm not one of those people.

Joe Gilgun

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I got trained in kick-boxing and mixed martial arts. I enjoyed the whole process so much, and I'd love to do more action films.

Amy Jackson

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Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.

Misty Copeland

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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I know that people don't listen to music much in the way when they'll put on a CD, sit down, have a drink or go on a car journey. People pick and choose and just listen to tracks. But when I make a record, I try to think about it as a 50 minute musical journey, so the mood is very important, as is the sequence of the songs.

Loudon Wainwright III

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By the time I got to 'Silence of the Lambs,' I was madly in love with close-ups because I'm madly in love with actors, and a basic premise of 'Silence of the Lambs' is the story about two people fighting their way into each other's heads.

Jonathan Demme

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I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

Don Rickles

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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Dennis Prager

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It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds.

Dee Rees

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My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Dean Kamen

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Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.

Annalee Newitz

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The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Phil Ochs

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