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Alistair Cooke
American
Journalist
About the author
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#People
#America
#Listening
It's an acting job - acting natural.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Acting
#Job
These humiliations are the essence of the game.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
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.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#World
#War
#Soldiers
#World war
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.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#People
#Country
#First
#America
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Man
#Men
#Habit
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Intelligence
#Curiosity
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Life
#People
#Will
#Argument
#Curiosity
#Serenity
#Generosity
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Work
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Music
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Hollywood
#Popular
#Mythology
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Music
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Years
#American
#Enthusiasm
#Vulgarity
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
Alistair Cooke,
American
Journalist
#Right
#Feeling
#Friend
#Compliment