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“I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant…” quote by John Hurt — Download Open image

“I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer.”

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I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the…

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My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

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I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because…

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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

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I was a full time student either at Stony Brook or NYU getting my masters degree. After I graduated with my masters I was…

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Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

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I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage…

John Gordon Sinclair

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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

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Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but…

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I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.

Robert Trujillo

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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

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The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be…

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Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not…

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They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

William Shakespeare

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