George Packer Quotes
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
George Packer
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
Barrett Foa
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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.
Naveen Jain
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
Laura Bush
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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.
Abraham Verghese
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I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson
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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.
W. Bruce Cameron
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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.
Jack Whitehall
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
Rachel Platten
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright
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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.
Lance Henriksen
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
Aaron Eckhart
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
Patrick Marber
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Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
Barack Obama
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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.
R. A. Salvatore
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
Marian Anderson
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I had no ambition to become an actor at all.
Danny Huston
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A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
George Packer
