Gary Jennings Quotes
I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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The script is just a blueprint.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.