You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk.
In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.
When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.
I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.
People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.
Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.
I'm covering the worst president in American history.
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
We won't really know what will happen until it happens.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
I like Flea, I like him as a musician.
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.
We decided that you have to let the other person do whatever he or she loves, and not intrude on that. You don't have to do everything together.
The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.
The real good teams and the real great teams find a way to win.
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.
So here we are. We have a choice to make.
So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.
So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.
Since I left Sunset Beach, it's been non-stop. All that growth happened really fast, and at the rate it's going, I want to stick with it.
Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.
Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
Maureen was, let's see, nearly 20 years older than me. So, you know, we didn't kind of grow up together so much but we got along fine.
Mediums have perhaps but little conscious information to give us concerning their powers; we must learn from what they do, not from what they say.
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?
No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
No, I did not offer to resign for a second.
Now, they invent them deliberately just to invalidate our ancestors' reasoning, and that is all they are ever going to get out of them.
Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.
Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.
On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.
On outside we are satisfied with the escalating development of our relations with France, and the French role in stabilization in our area.
On one level, I enjoyed the irony of the situation: a girl who's from a Cuban or Puerto Rican household who's been discouraged from speaking Spanish.
On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today.
One of the good things about television is that there's such alternatives now to what's often homogenized network entertainment.
I was going to be an English teacher.
I worked to save up enough money to pay off my bills and have enough money to live for a little while, and then I moved to Paris.
I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
If we're so convinced times will get tougher, why is mall traffic up? Why are car sales still strong? Why are home sales still chugging along?
I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
I got into television because I hated it so. And I thought... there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.
I don't know what all of us can do to continue to press for more women, more minorities, but it's just something that we all have to work on.
I'd covered the campaign in 1988, and I'd managed to gain an even 20 pounds, which is one of the dangers you have covering those campaigns.
Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.
But a distinctive voice is important. I don't think I realized this as a young kid, but I do remember listening to those voices.
But even if it were the case that the natural laws had nolonger any secret for us, we could still know the situation approximately.
But essentially, it will be a news oriented program. It will be a news program with spinoffs of the news of the day, not unlike what you do, Larry.
I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.
I have lived in the homes of workers; they live on boiled potatoes, black bread with lard spread on it instead of butter, and rotten beer.
I hate repetition and I love challenges, and that is why I've jumped from newspapers to magazines to books to television to radio to public speaking.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
I find it quite amusing that I can frighten children by just saying, Puppies. Usually they're disappointed I don't actually have black and white hair.
I can tell you that there is a lot of misinformation out there. There's a lot of fabrication out there, and a lot of misinformation.
I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.
Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
From two o'clock one afternoon until the ship docked in England again the next evening at seven, none of the medical personnel stopped work.
If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?