Avery Brooks Quotes
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.
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I like the noise of democracy.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.