Avery Brooks Quotes
People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'
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I am always open to a conversation. I am always open to a bipartisan compromise.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
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People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
