Katharine Viner Quotes

After working at the 'Guardian' for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too - it's something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.

Katharine Viner

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It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.

Jimmy Cliff

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Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

MyselfChildPeopleMeIdeasWant

When you make a movie with a lot of music in it, you can't always put all the songs onto the soundtrack. They just don't all fit.

Max Joseph

MusicYouAlwaysJustFitSongs

Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes.

Ann Leckie

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I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

Amy Adams

ChildrenMyselfFightSchoolMeYou

I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.

Stan Wawrinka

LoveGoodMyselfYourselfEnjoyYou

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There is no finish line to leadership.

Julia Hartz

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The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the television set.

Jorge Ramos

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Locomotion can be uncomfortable in VR, but a number of developers have figured out how to do some subtle locomotion.

Brendan Iribe

UncomfortableOutSomeDevelopersVR

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Antonio Porchia

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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

William Glasser

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