Lawrence Wright Quotes

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Lawrence Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1947

Topics

JournalismTalkRuleProfession

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

John Newcombe

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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton

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Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

Martin Sheen

GenerationOutTakeGotBombShould

A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.

Miranda Cosgrove

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My friend Harry Belafonte is an activist and musician, an extraordinary man who has dedicated his life to human rights. He taught me the power of words and that music can be used to heal and educate people.

Dianne Reeves

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The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows away.

Antoine Predock

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Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

Allison Anders

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When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

Philip Selway

WritingFirstYearsDrummingStarted

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

Paul Thomas Anderson

ForwardYouBackGoOutLittle

I love, love, love live performance. It's like walking a tightrope without the net. You better be on point; you better be balanced. You better have rehearsed it and seen it from every vantage so you can do what you do best. I do love film because it's up front in your face, and hopefully you've got a great editor.

Sheryl Lee Ralph

LoveLiveGreatBestPerformance

I was smart enough to save my money. I invest. The biggest thing you can invest is something they don't have a lot of, is land. I own a lot of it.

Tito Ortiz

MoneySmartEnoughYouLandOwn

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