Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

It's harder and harder for journalists to get out in the field and interview Iraqis. The Web can get these voices out easily and cheaply.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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InterviewOutVoicesWebGetHarder

I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.

Jimmie Johnson

SpeedNeedLimitLittleBreakGet

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

Joe Strummer

LifeLiveWeirdSometimesStrange

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

John Boyd Orr

LifeChangePeaceWorldBelieve

We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

Jeremy Grantham

PeopleProblemsThinkHumanOwn

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

John Foster

GoodJapaneseCrewMostCommunicate

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

Matthew Nable

ExperienceWritingComfortableWhere

Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.

Angel Cabrera

GolfYouSometimesMissJustTakes

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

John Turturro

DogSurvivePlanningNeedOrderLot

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.

Stephen Hunter

TimeSometimesTryDifficultFirst

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Simon McBurney

DoorWorldYouUnderstandTryDeal

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Tom Peters

New Year'sCelebrateYouWantSee

I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.

Rumaan Alam

LifeArtEmpathyWritingThinkDown

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