John Keegan Quotes

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

John Keegan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 15, 1934 - August 2, 2012

Topics

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As fame becomes more democratized, we might all have to start struggling with the powers, anxieties, and responsibilities of being a minor celeb.

Max Joseph

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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Jeff Koons

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Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

Michael De Luca

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When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Stephenie Meyer

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My company, Ballet Beautiful, is built around celebrating the strength and femininity of the female body - for me, pregnancy has just been an extension of that.

Mary Helen Bowers

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The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Mitch Landrieu

PeopleMindBetterChooseNewRock

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Jon Tester

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What I miss about the theater is the live experience.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Shekhar Kapur

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Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

Todd Young

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If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

Tim Robbins

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