Michael Hastings Quotes

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

Michael Hastings

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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

WritingSayMustDirectingProducing

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

GreatMenManGreatnessGreat Man

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

John le Carre

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'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicFirstElectronic MusicAlbum

When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.

Jonathan Ive

ProblemsProblemTryingYouLose

You have to train a dog to think.

Donald McCaig

DogThinkYouTrain

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

Deborah Norville

IdeasYouNothingBigTakeBite

If there's a secret to New Line, it's the people here.

Toby Emmerich

PeopleNewSecretLineHere

Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.

Ricky Reed

WorkCollaborationPossibilitiesYou

I don't want to be the next big anything. I just want to play for people and that's it.

Norah Jones

PeoplePlayWantNextAnythingBig

We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.

Markus Wolf

CareSaidNowYearsSuccessfulWest

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Lily Allen

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