Brooks Atkinson Quotes
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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I am healthy and happy.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
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You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.
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I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
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As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.
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I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
