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Peter Bergen Quotes

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1962

Topics

I Am Media Creation Him Big Deal

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

Good Environment Easy Living Events

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

Good Quality Road Energy Think Want

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Character Memories Writing Start You

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Book Way Write Own Different Been

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

I Can Understand Through Move Really

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

You Look Go Know Comfortable First

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Great Simple Mind Zero Slate Fact

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

Funny Love Me Think Play Always

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

Unfair Double Taxation Simply Form

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Character Quality Mind Strange Than

I don't care about age very much.

Age Care Much Very About

I like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun.

Chelsea Handler

Home Fun People Just Like Lot

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