Brooks Atkinson Quotes
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.Brooks Atkinson
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
Nathan Fielder -
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole -
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
Jacob Bronowski -
You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
Camila Alves -
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler -
I don't like to direct myself.
Vic Morrow -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney -
I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
M. K. Hobson -
'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
Sam Simon -
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
Mahesh Babu -
I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
D. B. Weiss -
I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
Becky G
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Orlando Bloom -
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.
Cynthia Lord -
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
George Washington -
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel Clowes -
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson