Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 11, 1962

Topics

WorkLiveAmericaBecomeSameOur

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Jill Abramson

PastFrustrationSomeoneCareerHer

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Matthew Goode

WorkAlwaysEverythingPrettyTense

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

Stephen Breyer

BusinessMoneyThinkProblemYou

Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.

Trevor Noah

ComedyNobodyIdeaOwnsPremise

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

Toni Collette

WorkTravelMindNiceTasteWhere

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.

Jason Reitman

GreatBetterYouPerfectBadCareer

The fashion system has killed fashion.

Domenico Dolce

FashionSystem

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

David Whyte

LifePoetryEnoughWantKindLarge

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Christopher Hitchens

SoulPeopleMeWishSayTake

The difference that you have with Donald Trump and everyone else in the field is, you've got one proven leader, an individual who has unbelievable success in the private sector. Everybody else in the field talks about it.

Corey Lewandowski

SuccessLeaderYouDonald TrumpGot

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

Cole Sprouse

ExperienceWorldThinkStandYou

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Chuck Todd

StoryJournalismCrimeDaysBecause

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