Brooke Nevin Quotes

I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.

Brooke Nevin

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Attention
  • Mission

• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Animal
  • Bear

• I know what I've done, and I know who I am.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Me
  • Like
  • Always

• God makes stars. I just produce them.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • God
  • Stars
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Service
  • Talk

• 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.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • World
  • Done
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Play

• 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?'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Hate
  • Baby

• 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.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Think
  • Death
  • Rest

• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Hardest
  • Overcome

• The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Waiting
  • Boy
  • Rain

• The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Serious
  • Silly

• Twelve thousand in the convention Believed through the voice of John. They worship, they deserve a portion, In heaven they will not be angry.

  

  Taliesin
  • Heaven
  • Angry

• The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World

• Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.

  

  John Webster
  • Wine

• At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Joy
  • Difficulties
  • Blossoms

• Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Free
  • Thoughts
  • Blessed

• The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Body
  • Events
  • Passions

• The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

  

  C. L. Bryant
  • Men
  • Black
  • Epidemics

• I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.

  

  Brooke Nevin