Brooks Atkinson
American theatre critic
Lived from: 1894 - 1984
Category: Media Country: 
United States
Born: 28 november 1894 Died: 14 january 1984
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The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Once Around the Sun (1951)― Brooks Atkinson -
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
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There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat.
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There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
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This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
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We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
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We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.
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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.
― Brooks Atkinson
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