Dexter Filkins Quotes

The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.

Dexter Filkins

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PeopleFriendsYouGoalMake

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.

Jess Walter

GreatPeopleThinkYouJazzBecome

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

John B. Hood

SacrificeBraveBattleSoldiersMust

Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

John Knoll

ThinkPossibleTryRealWellBeen

If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.

John M. Grunsfeld

LiveSpaceIf I CouldWouldCould

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

Jeff Vandermeer

WorkMotherArtStrongChooseSee

Any time I try to play anything that doesn't come natural, I'm just plain bad.

Andy Griffith

TimeBadPlayTryAnythingNatural

In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.

Amitava Kumar

JusticePeopleIndiaIslamIgnorant

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

Stephen Graham

GreatTimeMeUpOwnUs

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

Stella Young

MeDisabilityBirthFortuneLived

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

Stevie Wonder

PeopleMeThingsExpectDifferent

I must say that I do wrestle with the amount of money I make, but at the end of the day what am I gonna say? I took less money so Rupert Murdoch could have more?

Tom Hanks

MoneyDayEnd Of The DayEndSay

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

Mike Mills

JobBrainStartKeyLearnYou

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