Bergen Evans Quotes
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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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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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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We've all heard of the word 'dragon'. Dragon legends are numerous around the world. Legends tell us that the Chinese bred dragons. Many of the descriptions of these 'dragons' fit dinosaurs. Could the stories about dragons actually be accounts of encounters with what we now call dinosaurs?
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I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"
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I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do.
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
