David Ignatius Quotes
This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.

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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I hate competition.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.
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I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
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The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early '80s called Flipper's. It was a real riotous, incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place.
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There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.
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I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat.
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This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.