Rory Stewart Quotes
Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.
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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
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After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
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The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.
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The more things you do, the more things you can do.
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There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
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Public opinion is the whore among opinions.
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Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.
