Matt Gallagher Quotes
The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great.
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The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.
