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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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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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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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