Marcus Luttrell Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.
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A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.
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Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
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We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.
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I wasn't the best frogman out there.
