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George Packer Quotes

Pay attention to other people's nightmares because they might be contagious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Attention Pay Attention Pay

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

Music Trying Kind Something Just

Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.

People Story Survival Person Every

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

Talent Just Scoring Had Films

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

Saying Enough Long Way Something

I've had encounters with animals that have been really mystical. I've always been really into animals. But the way they appear in the paintings, they come from my mind's eye more than: 'I'm gonna draw a dog now.' It isn't thought out: 'Now I'm gonna draw a bird.' They just appear.

Dog Bird Mind Eye Thought Way

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Good Music Musicians Political Vice

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

Real Imagine Something Sacred

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

Think Kind Believing Whatever Up

Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

Women Today Power History Woman You

When my record comes on, you know that's a DJ Khaled record. That's my formula, and the people love it.

Love People DJ You Know Record

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.

Bruce Springsteen

Interesting Long Career Place Want

I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.

Time Romantic People Blame Think

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