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 BROOKSRhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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We rest our case on the production numbers.
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As far as songwriters, I’ve always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.
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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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I only direct in self-defense.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you’ve really got to risk it.
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No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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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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I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.
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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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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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