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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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
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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.
