"When I was in college, I became interested……" — Barry Eisler
"When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge."
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21 Quotes by Barry Eisler
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If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on…
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already…
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The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office…
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a…
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The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost…
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche…
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is…
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure…
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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control…
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I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in…
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many…
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What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't…
— Jeff Bridges
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I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.
— Sarah Brightman
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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
— Leo Burnett
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There…
— Carter Burwell
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Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and…
— Nicolas Cage
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I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me,…
— Nick Cannon
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We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental…
— Alex Campbell
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My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
— Robert Carlyle
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