- Laboratory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brook Quotes
One word, two very different currents.
This page gathers quotes around the word "brook" in its two distinct senses - the sound of a stream a musician hears as its own melody, and the sterner idiom of an art demanding total, undivided commitment.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up - define and refine you.
- Equitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
- Boxing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a boxing fan. I've seen Kell Brook fight. I'm not one of those boxers who says he doesn't watch other guys fight or follow the sport. I do.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kell Brook is a strong fighter. He likes to dictate the pace, which most boxers like to do. He likes to use his jab to set up other punches, like the left hook.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020