Phil Klay Quotes

I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.

Phil Klay

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You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.

Joaquin Phoenix

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Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.

John Chilcot

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I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.

Matthew Desmond

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When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.

Matthew Goode

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If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.

Jeff Zucker

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As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

Jeff Bridges

MovingLongKnowWillThingsStay

I was always 'foot-in-mouth-Mia.'

Mia Sara

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NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

Stephen Rodrick

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I don't want to show my pain. I resisted; I hesitated. I tried to be invisible, to pretend that nothing was wrong. It's impossible; it's not like me.

Sonia Rykiel

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When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.

Tom Frieden

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From day one, my focus as a new-breed appropriator was to look for areas where we could save taxpayer dollars.

Tom Graves

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My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Jason Babin

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