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George Packer Quotes

I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'

George Packer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1960

Topics

Time Waiting Writing Book Village

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

Joe Lonsdale

Financial Data Decision-Making Guide

I recognise that fishing is perhaps not the most high-employment industry in this country, but it's a symbol of what we lost when we entered the E.U.: control over national resources that, if we retained them, we could have husbanded in our interest and, indeed, in the interest of others.

Michael Gove

Fishing Control Country Lost Others

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

John Prescott

Family Father Mother People You

When I was, like, 10, I cooked a three-course meal for my family.

Sonoya Mizuno

Family Meal Like Cooked

I think Messi is an absolute giant in the game. Not so much because of his dribbles and actions. That's why most people rate him. But I think, differently from others, that he is phenomenal in his teamplay and combination play.

Robin Van Persie

People Game Think Play Why Others

The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.

Rush Limbaugh

Today People Media Talking You Know

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Mother Me Remember Seeing She Opera

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Dee Dee Myers

Become Jacket Up Off Idea Set

I've learned there is a void in adult stories across the land. Hollywood, whatever that is anymore, is losing their ability to tell those stories because they're not even thinking of that audience.

Peter Riegert

Losing Thinking Hollywood Land Tell

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

Novak Djokovic

Children Rights Must Those Protected

My family are everything to me. They come first in everything I do.

Nigel Barker

Family Me First Everything Come

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

Lynn Redgrave

Know Dealt How Shrink