George Packer Quotes
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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I won't join another band again.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
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I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
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I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I think I'm more European in personality.
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假如办十件事，九件是坏的，都登在报上，一定灭亡。那我就走，到农村去，率领农民推翻政府，你解放军不跟我走，我就找红军去。【在庐山会议上的讲话（１９５９年７月２３日）】
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I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
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The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.
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How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.
