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Albert Brooks Quotes

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Anger Laughter Think You Close Very

Listen to your mom and dad! They are almost always right, especially about boys.

Mom Listen Right Always Almost Your

At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'

Success Good Animal Dress People

My mother believed in curses, karma, good luck, bad luck, feng shui. Her amorphous set of beliefs showed me you can pick and choose the qualities of your philosophy, based on what works for you.

Good Mother Me Luck Good Luck Karma

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.

Question Not Interested Interested

We're guided by consumer data, and it helps give us the confidence to invest where the consumer is going.

Steve Easterbrook

Confidence Data Where Us Going Give

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

Think You Years Get Older Actually

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.

Change Character Great Enjoy You

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

Identity Me Understand More Jewish

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Jean Baudrillard

Greatness Negative Never Resolve

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.

Good Character Teacher Myself Me

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

War Saying House White News Say

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

Constantin Brancusi

Mind Difficult Things Make State

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