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Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.
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My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'
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Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
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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!
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Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.
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Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.
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I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up.
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
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I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.
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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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Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.
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Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
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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.
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But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
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I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
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If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.
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I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?
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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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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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