Sebastian Junger Quotes
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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I don't run behind authority.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.
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In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.
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I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.
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What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
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I've been trying to give as much attention and focus to my life as well as my career. It's hard because the career is money, but putting that before day-to-day needs isn't something that can last indefinitely. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.
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I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
