Michelle Dean Quotes

Among journalists, there is a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads.' This can result in some serious hustling - and some serious sloppiness - whenever a crime occurs. The public's longing to see and hear salacious details is, basically, endless.

Michelle Dean

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SayingDetailsResultSeriousCrime

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

Jessica Jackley

LiveFocusDayNightRestDie

'Lincoln' was a very sacred workplace. Everyone did a lot of research for that movie and wanted to show up informed and ready to enter that world.

Jeremy Strong

ResearchWorldReadyWorkplaceUp

In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

Stephanie Coontz

LifeFamilyGoodMemoriesPainWarm

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Stephen Stills

ArtYouImportantDecideWellOnce

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Desmond Tutu

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I always ask the actors, 'What have you never done before?'

Courtney A. Kemp

YouDoneNeverAskAlwaysBefore

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

Concha Buika

SpeakCareKnowEnglishSureSing

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Anton Chekhov

NatureSeaMeaningPityNorNeither

Life lives on life - it is cruel, but it is God's will. And it is for our good, of course, because if there weren't little animals to eat up the young mussels, our canals would be choked by those shellfish, for each mother has more than a thousand young ones at a time!

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

LifeGoodMotherGodTimeYoung

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

Annie Dillard

VisionTimeJealousThinkYouWrong

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

Pink

WorkFunnyGoodTalentWork Hard

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

Pontius Pilate

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