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John Pomfret

"My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd."

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"We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold."

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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

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"Oh, yes. I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy."

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach."

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"The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time."

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"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."

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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."
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"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
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"I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police."
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"For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army."
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"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."
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"Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered."
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"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."
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"The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me."
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"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight."
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"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."
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