Brooke Adams Quotes
It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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It's glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn't be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, 'What's the difference?' The Orpheum is a smaller house, that's all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.
