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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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.
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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 would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.
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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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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
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The one thing that I cannot live without when I'm traveling is a small container of tea tree oil. It's not the most glamorous thing, but if you get a cut, a mosquito bite, a small breakout, no matter what it is, it's my little cure-all. It's inexpensive, it's small enough to carry on, and I bring it with me all the time.
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If the Author will it, there may be appended to any comedy an afterpiece. Meanwhile, so far as I may judge, the life of Manuel ends here.
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The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
