"As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune."

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Source : "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

David Edelstein

#Stars Quotes #Water Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.”
“I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.”
“The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.”

Source : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry". Book by Charles Péguy. "Un Nouveau théologien" (1911), 1943.
“I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.”
“The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.”
“Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4
“A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.”
“If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?”

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