Rick Atkinson Quotes
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
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To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
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Before the whole music business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
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I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.
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Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
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Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!
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Men make history. History does not make the man.
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
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Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.
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Success has killed more men than bullets.
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People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.
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Every time you play one old-time picture along with today's kind of work, and they throw in the computers and the guns and the this and the that and the God-almighty, it gets to be a hassle and you wonder who the hell's doing what!
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I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time.
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I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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Scotland will not be a foreign country after independence, any more than Ireland, Northern Ireland, England or Wales could ever be “foreign countries” to Scotland.
