George Packer Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.
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I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
