Katie Hafner Quotes

Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

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• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Wisdom
  • Moral
  • Practical

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Meet

• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Country
  • Love
  • Border

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Black
  • Best
  • Color

• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Congress

• I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Falling In Love

• People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Learning
  • Cool

• I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Sun
  • Story
  • Sky

• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  

  Sallust
  • Better
  • Fair
  • Conquer

• If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Very
  • Ride
  • Park

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error.

  

  Dylan Bruce
  • Good
  • Training

• I recognized in them what I had never had and, I now knew, would always lack. What was it? I wasn't able to say precisely: the training, perhaps, to feel that the questions of the world were deeply connected to me; the capacity to feel them as crucial and not purely as information to display at an exam; a mental conformation that didn't reduce everything to my own individual battle, to the effort to be successful.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Training
  • Information
  • Battle

• Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Different
  • May
  • Truth

• The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

  

  James Fenton
  • Mother

• Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Work
  • Tiger
  • Golf tournament

• Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Training