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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.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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When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
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Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
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I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.
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The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.
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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
