Richard Engel Quotes

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.

Richard Engel

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Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.

Joanna Scott

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I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

Melanie Griffith

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I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Anita Diament

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As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

Cherie Blair

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Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good.

Ciara

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Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

Bob Lilly

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Truth is the daughter of time.

Aulus Gellius

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For me, I want 10 perfect events.

Ashton Eaton

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In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

Peter Porter

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The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

Todd Rundgren

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I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I'm not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal.

Timothy Olyphant

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