"Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms."

-- Mike Jackson

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“No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss”
“The world is always full of promise.”
“To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.”
“Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.”

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“He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.”
“I mean, if I believed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that a truck was coming at you, and you didnâ€™t believe that truck was bearing down on you, there is a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.”
“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”
“When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.”

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