David Ignatius Quotes
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.
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I was always a bit concerned about purity of essence. I never wanted a job that might affect the way I wrote or thought.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.
