G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
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I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
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There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
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My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
