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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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