You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKSImmortality is a by-product of good work.
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A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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He who hesitates is poor.
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I love writing songs. I’m a songwriter.
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it’s a sign of security.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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