David Ignatius Quotes
It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.
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The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
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I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.
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Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
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This will make widows wince. But fictive things Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.
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Many political experts have told me that nobody will vote for me because America is not ready for such decisive and dynamic leadership. They tell me these things, and I say nay to the negative nincompoops who never nourished the nihilistic nerve to name a novice to nail down the nomination.
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Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything.
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Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We are good, they are evil," or "We know what is good and right and we know what is wrong," so all questions are settled in advance by a set of ideological prejudices.
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This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.
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I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
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It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.
