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If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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I've never been disappointed, because I've never given somebody I liked that much power.
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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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Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.
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I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!
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Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?
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I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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