George Packer Quotes
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.
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If I make a stupid decision but don't execute it because I'm, say, lazy, then I'm lucky, not rational. However, at other times a person acts for good reasons just as she does what she thinks she shouldn't do, not knowing that they are good reasons. Just like sometimes we are a lot less rational than we think we are, it is also true that sometimes we are a lot more rational than we think we are.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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The Age of Writing has passed. We must invent a new metaphor, restructure our thoughts and feelings. (p. 14)
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
