Andy McNab Quotes
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I enjoy three meals a day, and 90 per cent of what I eat is vegetarian and homemade. I occasionally eat non-vegetarian, and chicken preparations are my favourite.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
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It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant.
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
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Better to live a day on your feet than a lifetime on your knees.
