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Amy Chozick Quotes

I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that.

Amy Chozick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

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Coffee Think Questions Help Plan

We're always flexible and pragmatic... It's always important to watch the unemployment rate and to make sure that we can keep most Canadians working. We were successful in that back in 2008-09.

Jim Flaherty

Back Important Flexible Always Watch

The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.

John le Carre

Character People Person Now Personal

Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.

Robert Osborne

Work Success Age Day Road Tough

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

Michael Hirst

Character Ideas Writing Talking Way

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

Stephen Rodrick

Men World Dark Land Only Around

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

Tracey Ullman

Love Loved Late Lily I Love Carol

I don't have a mortgage or kids, so I can lie low and tighten my belt if I need to.

Rory McCann

Lie I Can Mortgage Need Low Kids

There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

Michael Morpurgo

Children Great Writing Book Genius

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

Michael Nesmith

Doing Grind Now Right Something

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Javier Bardem

Live Technology Empathy World Think

The Arab world's problems are a problem of the Arab mind, and the name for that problem is anti-Semitism.

Bret Stephens

Mind World Problems Name Problem

In a dream you are never eighty.

Anne Sexton

You Dream Never Eighty