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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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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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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If you want to program in C, program in C. It's a nice language. I use it occasionally...
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Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
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Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and try for whatever reason to go about things a different way. Even if it is a simple sense of adventure, a sense of exploration. You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.
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There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
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I'm just trying to up my films - how every film should be better than the previous one. That's what I struggle for.
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How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.
