Drawing brush stroke lines w/ tapered ends at any angle

I'm trying to match the style of an illustration done by someone outside my company; all the lines taper at both  the ends like an actual brush stroke, but when I used the brush tools I have to change the angle to get the tapered look - is there a trick to this? It's not efficient to have to stop and change the angle of the tool for every stroke -

After you change the angle once, choose apply all strokes.
If that is not working, have you tried using profile in the stroke palette.

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