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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1917 - December 3, 2000

Topics

Myself Thought Always Reporter

I don't do deleted scenes.

Robert Schwentke

If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.

John Rhys-Davies

Walking Done Tattoo Film Billboard

What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Opinion Doing Look Want Genuine Got

The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures 'victories' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.

Success Great Small American Media

What is important is that we stop and realize, 'Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that.' But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

Life People Me Enjoy Connection

It's so comforting to have a small piece of cake. Just one slice.

Cake Small Comforting Just One Just

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

Music Time Way Same Gain Used

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

Love Yourself World You Cinema Go

You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.

Win Inspire You Lift Minds Hearts

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Women Today Men Movies Out Come

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Funny Me Intellectual Label

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

Color Sound Vice Every Yeah Versa

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