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Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks

Birthname

AKA Richard Brooks

Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Death March 11, 1992

Educated At Temple University

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Film Director, Film Producer, Novelist, Screenwriter

Spouse Jean Simmons, Jean Brooks

Characters Portrayed

Jubal Early

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Man is stronger by far than woman...yet only woman can create a child. Does that seem right to you?

— Jubal Early (Richard Brooks), Firefly, Season 1: Objects in Space

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It's the national pastime, baby, stealin' and cheatin'. If they ever count every cheatin' wife and tax chiseler, the whole country would be behind prison walls.

— Richard 'Dick' Hickcock (Scott Wilson), In Cold Blood

Cheating Prison Corruption Stealing

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You ought to be shot...or stabbed. Lose a leg. To be a surgeon, you know? Know what kind of pain you’re dealing with. They make psychiatrists get psychoanalyzed before they can get certified...but they don’t make a surgeon get cut on. That seem right to you?

— Jubal Early (Richard Brooks), Firefly, Season 1: Objects in Space

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It doesn't make sense. I mean what happened. It had nothing to do with the Clutters. They never hurt me. They just happened to be there. I thought Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman... I thought so right up to the time I cut his throat.

— Perry Smith (Robert Blake), In Cold Blood

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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

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But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom.

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Comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly knows who he is.

— Eddie (Stephen Root), True Blood, Season 1: Plaisir D'Amour

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You can't just sit around waiting for your perfect idea of a man to come along. Life is way too damn short.

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Doesn't matter what they call you... it's the deeds that make the man.

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Cheating is never an accident. It's a conscious decision.

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

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To me, a man is someone who is brave enough to love, and let himself be loved.

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Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

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No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.

— Gore Vidal, Julian: A Novel

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If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

— E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

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Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

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I'm actually all for gay marriage. Just the thought of having another man around the house...

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If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

— James K. Polk, via www.inspiringquotes.us

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It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.

— Paul Gaugin, The writings of a savage

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