"I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'"

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Source : Ricardo Daza, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (2000). “Looking for Mies”, Birkhauser

Albert Brooks

#Kings Quotes #Taken Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.”
“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.”
“Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.”

Source : 'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7
“My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.”
“A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.”
“One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."”
“Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.”
“Specificity is the soul of narrative.”

Source : John Hodgman (2017). “Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches”, p.58, Penguin

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