Hector Tobar Quotes

As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.

Hector Tobar

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I AmPeopleProfessionalThirtyBeen

When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.

Jodi Kantor

LifeWorkStoryMy LifeYouKids

I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

Maya Hawke

SchoolIndependenceReachCareer

My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.

Maz Jobrani

MomLawLawyerYouNewBecome

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue Grafton.

Michael Connelly

PeopleReadingCrimeWriteLikeSue

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

Michael Easton

GoodDreamsChildrenBelieveYouGo

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Mary Leakey

LiveKeep GoingStupidYouHealthy

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

Missy Elliott

MusicCoolUnityGenerationKind

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Lukas Foss

AgeCreativeMeProcessNeverBeen

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

Louise Nurding

WorkHomeCreativeBrainI CanWant

Football can generate excitement and bring people together.

Didier Drogba

FootballTogetherPeopleExcitement

If I'm on a flight for more than 14 hours, I will do this Fresh face mask on the plane. I don't care how silly it looks; it saves my skin from drying out.

Chiara Ferragni

FaceCareMaskSillyLooksSkin

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

William Weld

MoneyGovernmentDeepPrettyCut

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