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Nothing a man writes can plea...

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

The humorous man recognizes t...

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

New Yorkers are inclined to a...

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Every man with an idea has at...

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

The cult of nature is a form ...

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Writing is not an end in itsel...

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

New Yorkers are inclined to as...

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Materialism is decadent and de...

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Nothing a man writes can pleas...

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

We tolerate differences of opi...

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.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

There is no joy so great as th...

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Walking companions, like heroe...

Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

The cult of nature is a form o...

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

It seems to me that the thing ...

It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to share them with the public. Real art is illumination. It gives a man an idea he never had before or lights up ideas that were formless or only lurking in the shadows of his mind. It adds stature to life.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Good plays drive bad playgoers...

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Although the theater is not li...

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

In the 1920s dramatists attack...

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

The humorous man recognizes th...

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

The virtue of the camera is no...

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.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Say 'Yes' to the seedlings a...

Say 'Yes' to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say 'Yes' to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say 'Yes' to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

Brooks Atkinson 65 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....