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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

~Alistair Cooke

Topics: Best Best Work Feel He His Like Professional Someone Who Work

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Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

~Alistair Cooke

Topics: Accepted Cocktail Music Wallpaper

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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

Topics: Assistants Become Colleges Doomsday Expert Lab Like Look Looked More Second Second World War Small Soldiers Than War Warriors World World War

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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

Topics: Agreeable America Aware Become Come Country Feeling First New People Settlers Travelers Whether Whole Oyster

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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

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Topics: Factory Flourishing Greeks Grew Hollywood Most Mythology Popular Since

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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

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Topics: America Back Britain Forward Lean Like Listening People Radio

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It's an acting job - acting natural.

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Topics: Acting Job Natural

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These humiliations are the essence of the game.

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Topics: Essence Game

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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

Topics: Been Best Child Coincide Come Compliment Conclusions Feeling Free Friend Give He Him His Make Own Right Set Whether You Your

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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

Topics: Argument Cheerful Curiosity Form Generosity Life Mode Own People Serenity Springs Take Which Who Will Willingness

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: November 20th, 1908

Died: March 30th, 2004

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