Brooke Nevin Quotes
I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
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I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
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Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
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The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.
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Twelve thousand in the convention Believed through the voice of John. They worship, they deserve a portion, In heaven they will not be angry.
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The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.
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The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
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Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.
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The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
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My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.
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The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
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I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
