Antony Beevor Quotes
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government what I think is a disastrous strategy which will impact on some of the most vulnerable and poorest people within our society.
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I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!
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I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.
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It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
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We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!
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Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
