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Jenna Wortham Quotes

If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet.

Jenna Wortham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1981

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Me Ideas Learn Diet Media New

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Struggle Election Journal Newspaper

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Andre Gide

Art Me Serenity Suits Rising Sole

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

Michael Connelly

Memory Research Writing Process Back

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

Alvin Ailey

Yourself Feel You Bad Sometimes

Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

Tove Jansson

Time Gold Rich Giving Silver Always

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

Rush Limbaugh

Way Unemployment Deal Different Very

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Sin Being Saved Many Inept

I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.

Jaylen Brown

Opportunity Wait Down Ready Corner

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money Divorce Need Everything Even

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Philip Levine

Work Best Day Poetry Every Day

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

Pierre de Coubertin

Athlete Games Individual Olympic

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

Search Credit Find Wrong Critics