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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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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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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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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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 couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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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.
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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.
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Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
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There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
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It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
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A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
