Albert Brooks Quotes

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

John Darnielle

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I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.

Melanie Chisholm

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I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

John Mellencamp

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If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

Matthew Desmond

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Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Amanda Hearst

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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

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I was so fortunate; in the years that I was in 'Thrones,' we were able to shoot in Iceland. I think some of my favourite memories would have to be isolated out there, surrounded by nothing but snow and ice.

Rose Leslie

SnowMemoriesThinkIceNothingOut

I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons. I need to learn more things, to be an artist or whatever, and then transfer that back into writing songs.

Mike McCready

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It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

Michael Jordan

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Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

Christopher Priest

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Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

Brandon Webb

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I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

Bob Seger

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