Lee Gutkind Quotes

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

Lee Gutkind

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

CreativeIdeasChanceStoryTrue

I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Joe Jamail

CommunityLawyerLegalEthicalSense

Handwriting challenges aside, I love paper cards. I love the endless stewing involved in picking them out at the store. I love buying holiday stamps at the post office, and I love that 'whoosh' sound the cards make when I drop them into the mail slot.

Meghan Daum

LoveChallengesHolidayCardsOffice

It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.

Robert Mundell

BestTogetherPoliticalCreation

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Tracey Ullman

LoveMoviesBeyondBoundariesTaste

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Tom G. Palmer

GovernmentNowDutyReasonCivic

I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

Ruth Negga

OpportunityThinkFeelPlayOut

I could live my whole life being so comfortable doing things I've already worked hard to not be nervous at, or I could continue to push the envelope and make myself uncomfortable and learn and see what I'm capable of, and acting is definitely that.

Ruby Rose

LifeLiveMyselfLearnPushDoing

I think some of the best music throughout the actual history of music itself came from cultures where they're not really looking for outside themes. It's developed from their hometowns - it's what they love and what they love to do.

Jon Bellion

LoveMusicHistoryBestLooking

Since women ask me about male motives all the time, I can offer a bit of advice. If you feel like you're going to get hurt then you shouldn't be there in the first place. That's the way I look at relationships.

Chris Noth

WomenTimeMeHurtAdviceLook

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

Clint Smith

SchoolChildChoicesChooseChoice

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

Brian O'Driscoll

DownWillMoreHardChaseIreland

We actually found some home videos, some really funny footage of me when I was around 3 years old. I come up to the camera to do a Nixon impression. I don't know who taught me that, but I come up to the camera and said, 'I am not a crook.' I got a really good laugh. You see me register that bringing joy to people is a positive thing.

Annaleigh Ashford

PositiveFunnyGoodHomeI AmJoy

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Lee Gutkind