Avery Brooks Quotes

Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.

Avery Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 2, 1948

Topics

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People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

Jerry Rice

PeopleMeWeirdHandsYouLook

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

Max von Sydow

GreatHandsAdjustUpSomething

I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

Matt Reeves

FearHopeLookingViewYouSay

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

Jeff Daniels

StoryYouGoNewKindAct

My eccentricity became direction.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

Mo Yan

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Yay, me - I made it out of high school alive and well!

Lourdes Leon

SchoolMeHigh SchoolAliveHigh

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Delta Burke

SizeAmNeitherEve

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

Chiaki Kuriyama

IdeasWayFirstPrettyWouldSome

Everyone one-on-one will be completely honest about the music that they listen to. But then you get into a group situation, and then it's the cool/uncool debate. I have really done my very best to reinforce the very fact that your heart knows better than your head does what you like when it comes to music and what not.

Corey Taylor

MusicHeartBestBetterYouDebate

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

Armin van Buuren

MusicPeopleDJRulesGoSound

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

Antonio Tabucchi

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