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I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
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I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
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I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.
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