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Gordon Sinclair Quotes

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

Gordon Sinclair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 3, 1900 - May 17, 1984

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War Out Japan Who Italy Debts

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

Jim Harrison

Best Place Know Write Because State

Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract and so modern about a bank making a technical mistake about how it funded its obligations to depositors, and suddenly you're out of work.

John Lanchester

Work Mistake You Bad Accept Out

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

Recognition Admiration Our Ourselves

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

Stella McCartney

Music Great Gardening Me Fashion

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

Rose Tremain

Moment Space Writing Book New Head

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

Robert T. Bakker

Want Bob Jurassic

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

Rufus Wainwright

Fog Believe Spark Moments You Hold

'Animal' was my nickname in high school.

Michael Rooker

School Animal High School High

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

Syd Barrett

I Am Think Easy You Talk Head

If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.

Peter Maurer

Good Potential Solutions Social Vast

I try to turn a place on film into a mental state. I always have three or four locations that I repeat and return to in a film, to make it more mythic. But my fiction films are relatively subjective stories, experienced though one character. And that always justifies a little stylisation in terms of landscape.

Pawel Pawlikowski

Character Landscape Place Three Try

There is a healthy disrespect among veterans who served on the front lines for people who walk around telling war stories.

Seth Moulton

Walk War People Disrespect Healthy