Michael Hastings Quotes

In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it - influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates - and despite what they tell themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively.

Michael Hastings

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ActionImpossibleExpectationsStory

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Joan Cusack

LifeEnjoy LifeParentingWorldHelp

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Tom Conti

DayWritingSayingOne DaySomething

I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do.

Mary Pope Osborne

LoveTimePastReligionPoetry

Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.

Jonathan Van Ness

SleepHairBodyDownYour BodyHeat

I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

Donald Ray Pollock

MeStoryMy OwnTryWriteOwn

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

Cory Doctorow

LifeMy LifeLookDownPageOut

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

Bob Hoskins

YourselfYouFilmGoingGive

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

Bruce Feirstein

LearningThinkYouTelevisionNeed

There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this industry.'

Phoebe Robinson

WomenHappenLeaveIndustryGoing

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

Thomas Keneally

WorldChurchLiterature1950sFound

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.

Martin Filler

New YorkStandDuckLongNewIsland

We did a play in the third grade all about Winter not wanting to give over his throne to Spring. That was my first title role, and I took full advantage of it. I felt like there was no one else on that stage but Ms. Spring.

Lynn Whitfield

WinterSpringPlayFirstOverStage

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