Chris Fussell Quotes
The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.
Chris Fussell
Quotes to Explore
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
Randall Terry
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
Vin Diesel
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
Sam Smith
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
Adam Grant
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
Laura Prepon
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
G. Willow Wilson
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
Candis Cayne
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
Benito Mussolini
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I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.
Debra Monk
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I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.
Elizabeth Hand
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Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.
Ahmed Zewail
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Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.
Christian Marclay
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The reality, as the battlefield taught us, is that a 20th-century organizational system is simply insufficient for the speed of the information age.
Chris Fussell
