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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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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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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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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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