Antony Beevor Quotes
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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My first concert was 'Nsync.
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
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This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this tradition of bringing highlights of great operas on the series.
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The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
