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 refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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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've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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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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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.
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Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
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There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.
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I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
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People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
