Fiona Barton As a journalist, your words are regularly read by lots of people, but they’re not your words: they’re someone else’s. You’re quoting people. – Fiona Barton Elses Quotes Journalist Quotes Lots Quotes People Quotes Quoting Quotes Read Quotes Regularly Quotes Writing is not just about putting words on a page. Ideas have to cook first. A lot of people think journalists are criminals, and there are some who haven’t helped us. But the media is essential for democratic society.
James Sanborn What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. – James Sanborn
FoodHeston Blumenthal To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste. – Heston Blumenthal
Roy Bennett When you enter into a struggle, and you genuinely believe in what you are doing, and you live under injustice, and you live under a regime that is dictatorial and oppresses people, there have to be sacrifices. – Roy Bennett
Babyface Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, ‘I’ve got to play the Nokia, and that’s all I’m going to pull in is the Nokia.’ That would not have been acceptable. – Babyface
DadSteve Albini My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn’t romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. – Steve Albini
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