Rick Atkinson Quotes
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
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I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.
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Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
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Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'
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I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
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The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
