Antony Beevor Quotes
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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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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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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No agency is better than its account executives.
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My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Have in readiness this saying of Solon, 'But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.'
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
