George Packer Quotes
Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.
George Packer
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
Madison Davenport
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
Manolo Blahnik
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I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.
Facundo Pieres
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
Cameron Diaz
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Federico Fellini
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
Verite
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
Dana Plato
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
Karen Traviss
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'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.
Olivia Thirlby
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
Edgardo Osorio
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
Ira Glass
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Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.
Rachel Nichols
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'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
Ted Turner
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If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
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Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.
George Packer