Lynsey Addario Quotes
I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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It was important. We know they were a team that's been struggling all year and we just wanted to get this win tonight. Being that we got the one on their home court, we figured they were gonna try to come in and win one on ours and we did a good job of being focused and playing the game and finishing it out.
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At every wedding someone stays home.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
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How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
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I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
