Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Since entering office, I have focused on working with the people and businesses of New Hampshire to build a stronger economic future through innovation, and in no sector is innovation needed more than our energy industry.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I think it's good to live an artful life.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.
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But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
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What I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
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I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
