Geraldine Brooks Quotes

The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a way to get there, the story, the reporting, it's the easiest you'll ever do. 'Cause the drama's everywhere.

Geraldine Brooks

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I'm Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.

Joe Dempsie

BestBelieveGeminiCancerClaim

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Jenny Offill

LifeIdeasKindThingsInterested

The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant.

Andrew Rosenthal

FreeSpeechFindSayWantRight

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

Amy Winehouse

BestMeThinkWeekGymGo

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

Alvin Toffler

Small ThingsSmallDirectionThink

If you look at the developed world, people have multiple devices now. And a phone works with a watch, with a car, with a tablet, with a number of other type of devices.

Steve Mollenkopf

CarPeopleWorldYouLookPhone

It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world.

Luke Donald

GreatBestManWorldStoryOld Man

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Louise Brown

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An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Jules Renard

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I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Lisa Unger

FindWriteReasonSameHappenOut

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

Joshua Oppenheimer

JournalismInformationNewHuman

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

Christie Brinkley

LoveMeFallPersonHeadFalse

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