If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKSIf you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
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Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you’ve gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.
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You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
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I wish I was better looking.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity.
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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.
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We’re all blessed with a lot of timidity and a lot of worry and anxiety, and vanity is a good antidote.
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