George Packer Quotes
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.
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Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.
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I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
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The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
