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Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Don’t be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party!
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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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Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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