"The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."

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Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

Brooks Atkinson

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“Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.”

Source : "The Devil in Tom Ellis". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2015.
“Do you want me to answer that?”
“The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.”
“I live in jeans and own a lot of them. I'm much more comfortable in trousers and T-shirts, and I don't often wear dresses.”
“When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.”
“There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.”
“I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.”
“The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.”

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