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Letter "A" » Alistair Cooke Quotes
«Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.»
«Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.»
«Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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Cities
| Keywords:
Angeles, anonymity, area, automobile, blanketed, foul, freeway, freeways, garages, gas station, highways, land area, monopolize, monopolized, parking, parking lot, quarter, stations
«These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
Soldiers,
War
| Keywords:
assistants, colleges, doomsday, expert, lab, second world, Second World War, Soldiers of the, The Lab, The Second world war, warriors, world war
«It's an acting job-acting natural.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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Actors and acting
«People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| About:
America and Americans,
Feelings,
Nations,
People
| Keywords:
oyster, settler, The Settlers, travelers
«These humiliations are the essence of the game.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
| Keywords:
humiliations
«I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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