Barton Gellman Quotes
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
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I think women have a unique talent for being able to see the forest and the trees at the same time.
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If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
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As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect 'basic' or 'natural' properties of the environment, but that they should serve our 'narcissistic' purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.
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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
