Flora Lewis Quotes
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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Twenty kilometers. At an average speed of 120 klicks per hour, we should cover the distance in ten minutes. Ten freezing, adrenaline-pumping, gorge-rising, terror-beating-against-the-ribs, react-in-a-microsecond-or-die seconds.
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I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.
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Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
