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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.
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