Brooks Atkinson Quotes
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.
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Better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.
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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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As in other animals, the nerves and chemicals that make up our basic brain structure have a direct connection with our body. When the old brain takes over, it partially shuts down the higher brain, our conscious mind, and propels the body to run, hide, fight, or, on occasion, freeze. By the time we are fully aware of our situation, our body may already be on the move. If the fight/flight/freeze response is successful and we escape the danger, we recover our internal equilibrium and gradually “regain our senses.
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Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
