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Albert Brooks Quotes

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing You Find Know Director Out

I have no friends and I never leave my house.

Friends House No Friends Never Leave

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that.

Love Think Office Like Homeland

My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.

John Lanchester

Burger Chicken Spicy Order Still

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

Relationship Myself Woman You Say

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

Eyes Justice Me Think Someone Hand

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Life Women Daily Great Day Men

When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.

Music Experience Space Fashion Week

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

Mistakes Value Investing Trap Thing

The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.

Attitude Myself Experience Me My Own

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

Community Believe Never Up Anything

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Me I Can See Anything Interest Does

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.

Clifford Geertz

Nothing Agree Almost Structures Very

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