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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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I wanted to entertain so badly that I kept at it until I was good. I just browbeat my way into show business.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
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