Brooks Atkinson Quotes
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Muslim girls, we love fashion! Whether we wear the hijab or not - it's our choice - and it's time the industry took note. Finally, fashion stores are open to that idea.
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You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.
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Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.
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People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
