Rick Atkinson Quotes
I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
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My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.
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I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
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I don't think you should spend that much time in the gym. Don't sit around between sets too long. If you want to burn some calories, keep the sets tight. Give yourself 30 seconds to a minute between each set. Supersetting is brilliant.
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I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
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'Diverse' shouldn't be an actionable thing - it should just be.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Mobile has created a totally different dynamic for discovering apps. You're sitting in a bar, and your friend is taking some pictures, and then you ask what app they're using.
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I'm going to leave WWII. I considered and rejected doing something on the Pacific. Fourteen years is enough. I'd like to take on a different challenge and probably a different era. But it will be another war. It's what I do.
