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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.
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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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My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.
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I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're Jewish, you have a small smile on your face. Because you know the rest are wrong and you don't want to hurt their feelings.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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We want to get people laughing we don't want to offend anybody.
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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin those guys mean a lot to me.
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
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I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.
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