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.
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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.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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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.
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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.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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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.
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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.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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!
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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I acted my heart out.
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I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.
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I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.
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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
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Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.
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I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a "career builder," I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with "Caprica," the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.
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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.
