{"author":"Mel Brooks","author_id":"Mel+Brooks","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["funny","fly","us "],"id":766,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["bullshit","humor","profanity","shit","vulgarity"],"id":17798,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["life","want","think "],"id":27486,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["fear","love"],"id":36192,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Humor is just another defense against the universe.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["universe","just","defense "],"id":42959,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Humour is just another defence against the universe.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["humour","humorists"],"id":45502,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["life-lessons","mistakes"],"id":91092,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names  identities  personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["writers","writing"],"id":108548,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Humor is just another defense against theuniverse.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["defenses","humor","universe"],"id":143240,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"},{"text":"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.","author":"Mel Brooks","tags":["said","bad","saying "],"id":217272,"author_id":"Mel+Brooks"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}