Albert Brooks Quotes

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

Albert Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

Jim Mattis

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Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Jennifer Granholm

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles

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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Jeff Bingaman

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While the four-day work week is not yet universal, most citizens enjoy the pleasures of added three-day weekends during the year. These extra days, as well as monthlong vacations, are used in the pursuit of our studies, hobbies and travels - and often all three are indulged at the same time.

Michael Frome

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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Jean de La Fontaine

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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

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If you rent, the rent goes up every year. But if you buy a 30-year mortgage, the cost is fixed.

John Paulson

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It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.

Jonathan Krisel

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At the age of 46, in my sixth prison term, it was the second prison I was in - California Rehabilitation Center. The California Civil Education program kind of opened up all of the experiences that that I had dealt with in my life, that I had experienced.

Susan Burton

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Carlos Condit does the best job of being the counterstriking guy that is very elusive.

Tim Kennedy

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Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

Norman Jewison

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