David Simon What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you’re in it. – David Simon Compromises Quotes Reason Quotes Story Quotes Writer Quotes The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it’s somebody that you don’t care about, then it doesn’t really have – the stakes aren’t there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn’t reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
Alexandra Daddario It’s really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish. – Alexandra Daddario
Lee Evans My comedy is about nothing. I do it because I feel less inadequate on stage moving about than I do off stage standing still. – Lee Evans
Stephen Rodrick Maybe it’s impossible to spend time with Patrick Stewart and not have the conversation move to the extraterrestrial. – Stephen Rodrick
Anne Burrell It’s a life choice to be a girl chef, as it is to be a boy chef. It feels pretty natural to me. It’s a full-time, full-scale, full physical job, and a lot of times, it can take the place of kids and family. To be in this career is much more difficult for a woman to have a family, marriage – whatever that means. It’s not a 9-5 job. – Anne Burrell
Mona Eltahawy Mubarak was adept, as were many other U.S.-backed dictators, at playing the sane middle to the ‘lunatics with beards’ he so often used as bogeymen to guarantee the support of foreign allies. – Mona Eltahawy
Sherilyn Fenn I wasn’t into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It’s an extended vacation, isn’t it? – Sherilyn Fenn
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