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Lee Gutkind Quotes

The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.

Lee Gutkind

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Challenge Creative Story Information

The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

Jeremy Clarkson

Black Problem Television Boy Must

Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.

John Catsimatidis

Me Hand President Him Inspired He

I love the opportunity to get properly dressed up. I've worn three Lanvin dresses, and they've all been a dream. They're so well made, with the most beautiful craftsmanship. I don't tend to go with things that are ornate - just beautifully made pieces and some classic jewelry. Let the work speak for itself. I love that.

Meghan Markle

Work Love Opportunity Beautiful Go

I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

Maxine Waters

Me Financial Wall Congress Street

We're not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

Stephen Curry

Go Out Going Everybody Challenged

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Sissy Spacek

Family Value Me Motherhood Year Act

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

Rob Reiner

People World Think Smartest Jews

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.

Ronald Frame

You Person Morality Him Get Like

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

Mickey Mantle

Care You Who Hear Those Boos

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Birthday Best Me Present Table Ever

You know, I'm still deciding what I'm going to be when I grow up.

Deborra-Lee Furness

Grow You Know Grow Up Up Going

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Donald Johanson

Problems Questions Know Ask Right