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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!
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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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I only direct in self-defense.
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If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
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THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.
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It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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Directing is a terrible, anxious process. It's all collaboration, and if you have a dream, it's diluted very quickly by the slightest ineptness in any of your collaborators. They're supposed to help you, but too often they help you into your grave.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.
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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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