Ernie Pyle Quotes
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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I think to describe 'The Gates' as a genre show is tricky because when you think of what's a vampire show or what's a supernatural kind of thing, I think other shows... maybe focus on that element probably slightly more than our show does.
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I think it's time we thought about having Katrina bonds.
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Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.
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I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
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Our sale is not a sale but an event, ... We're going about one a minute to beat the darkness and get to the barbecue.
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I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.
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I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid.
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
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After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.
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The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.
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The fantastic thing about the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel is that it's one of the rare examples where they've preserved a battlefield more or less as it was. You can see all the trenches, where the British were, where the Germans lined up.
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Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
