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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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
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When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
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I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes. We could say things and people will catch them. That couldn't happen at a festival because nobody would catch it. I also like that in a smaller space people can be talking to each other and listening to the music; they don't have to be watching you the whole time.
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I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.
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Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
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Iraq does have many, many different tensions.
