Stephen Kinzer Quotes

The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.

Stephen Kinzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1951

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It is in times of great tragedy when the true spirit of our wonderful country unites as one.

Jim Gerlach

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As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

Jim Rash

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Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

Joel Edgerton

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In 1967, I had formed a collaboration with Hermann Eggerer, then of Muenchen, and together, we solved the problem of the 'asymmetric methyl group' and applied the solution in some of the many ways that have proved possible.

John Cornforth

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Bergman was courageous in choosing people to do things that they themselves might not expect to play.

Max von Sydow

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Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

Maximillian Degenerez

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I've got to the point where I just get on with it and the content of what I put on the records is determined from what I learn from the audience, from what works live, from what I want to hear when I go to a club or what I'd like to play when I get home.

Robert Palmer

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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.

Jeffrey Tambor

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I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.

Stevie Wonder

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Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

Trish Stratus

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There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

Douglas Coupland

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When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

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