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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. — Jacob Bronowski
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest… — Anne Bronte
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other. — Anne Bronte
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks
I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions. — Albert Brooks
'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play… — Albert Brooks
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just… — Garth Brooks
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater… — Geraldine Brooks
I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was… — Geraldine Brooks
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,… — Geraldine Brooks
We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We… — Herb Brooks
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. — Mel Brooks
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… — Mel Brooks
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he… — Mel Brooks
I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in… — Malin Akerman
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go… — Terry Brooks
I would love to interview Dave Grohl. I just think he's an amazing musician, and I grew up listening to Nirvana, so I have so… — Malin Akerman
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um,… — Alton Brown
When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas. — Chris Brown
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy… — Dan Brown

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