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In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
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Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.
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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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