Brooks Atkinson Quotes
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.