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" The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. "
Mel Brooks
Character
Always
Back
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" Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. "
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" Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "
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" Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director. "
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" These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet. "
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" If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country. "
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" I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. "
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" Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius. "
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Normal
" I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. "
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" When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin. "
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" No, no, the songs write themselves, almost. "
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Themselves
Almost
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I Love
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Life
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