David Petraeus Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I get homesick.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.
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Iraq does have many, many different tensions.
