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Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.


Brooks Atkinson

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GORDON ATKINSON When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
GORDON ATKINSON There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p...
GORDON ATKINSON This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
GORDON ATKINSON You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
GORDON ATKINSON I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ...
GORDON ATKINSON I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ...
GORDON ATKINSON This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or ...
GORDON ATKINSON I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ...
GORDON ATKINSON Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
GORDON ATKINSON My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ...
GORDON ATKINSON Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
GORDON ATKINSON The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ...
GORDON ATKINSON I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio...
ROWAN ATKINSON We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea...
ROWAN ATKINSON Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ...
KATE ATKINSON I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that ...
ROWAN ATKINSON Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
RON ATKINSON I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think ...
ROB ATKINSON Ideally, who you really want in that position is an entrepreneur who has built a small business into...
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