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

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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.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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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.
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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.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
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As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.
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People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.
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τόπος μηδένα φυσιούτω· τὸ γὰρ ὅλον ἐστὶν πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη, ὧν οὐδὲν προκέκριται.
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
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She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.
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I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.
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You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.
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The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.