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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The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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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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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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Fair words never hurt the tongue.
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Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.
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If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.
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It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.
