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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.


Charles Kuralt


#assignment #assignments #freedom #fun #had

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.


Richard Russo


#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.


Antoine de Saint-Exupery


#build #collect #drum #endless #immensity

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.


Jessica Savitch


#air #air time #assignments #given #quality

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.


Janis Karpinski


#brigade #could #criminal #evaluate #had

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.


Neil Sheehan


#away #could #first #get #i

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.


Kenneth Starr


#attorney #attorney general #committed #crimes #find

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.


Kathryn Bigelow


#assigned #classified #communist #consider #heroism

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.


Gunter Grass


#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right.


Francois Hollande


#entrusted #everything #given #i #me






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