Dexter Filkins Quotes

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

Dexter Filkins

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I have an awesome team. We all talk about what projects are the best for me to work on for my career and which ones to pass on.

Max Charles

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The Creeper in the 'Katana' series is the same Creeper that will be in 'Villains Month.'

Ann Nocenti

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I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

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In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.

Miranda Seymour

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Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you're directing a television show, they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

Jason Bateman

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I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

Jon Hamm

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My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

Dick Van Dyke

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I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Douglas Feith

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'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

Chris Van Allsburg

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We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

Bruce Forsyth

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Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

Winnie Byanyima

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