Bergen Evans Quotes

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Bergen Evans

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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

H. R. McMaster
- Thinking
- Effort
- Enemy
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

T. C. Boyle
- May
- Like
- Beauty
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

Kate Bush
- Time
- Music
- Mind
Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

Nadia Bjorlin
- Up
- Parents
- Sweet
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Ice T
- Music
- Acting
- Yourself
They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

Ed Asner
- People
- Credit
- Sheep