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.

Brooks Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 28, 1894 - January 14, 1984

Topics

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With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

John Banville

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I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.

Jennifer Hudson

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I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

Andie MacDowell

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I still get a lot of people coming up to me and recognizing me as Nunez, because 'Community' fans are really hardcore.

Mel Rodriguez

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The intelligent use of contemporary music in film has an enormous audience.

Robert Stigwood

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At one time in Montana, our elected officials were literally bought and owned by companies.

Steve Bullock

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Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

St. Jerome

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I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Romola Garai

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I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

Missy Elliott

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I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.

Lisa Randall

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No matter how certain I am about some culture or some group of people, my opinions are only as accurate as the amount of time I've spent with them.

Brian Chesky

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I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is.

Chuck Close

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