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Harold Evans Quotes

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: June 28, 1928

Topics

Journalism Find Sweat More Sound

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

Lawyer Years Fiction Playing Started

I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.

Loss Write Sense Cannot

Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

Power Interesting Long Physics Prize

When I was young, people didn't even really know what a producer was.

People Know Young Young People Even

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

Power Fearless Need Hold Account

The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.

Music Alone Great Amazing You Look

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

First Savannah Won Henry Finals

I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.

Think Television Why More I Think

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

Janice Dickinson

Myself Addiction Horrible Former

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

People Think America Values Wrong

Technology favors horrible people.

Douglas Coupland

Technology People Favors Horrible

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.

Soul Me Someone You Play Done

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