Joseph Pulitzer Quotes
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
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Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.
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I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.
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I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
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Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
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One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
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Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn't even regularly check my breasts.
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Comedians could do mindless things - and by mindless, I mean the easy jokes and things that you already agree with - but I find it more interesting, more of a reward, for people to feel something. I like to make a human connection, and that involves speaking emotionally, a bit more intellectually, or with a bit more moral complexity.
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Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.
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I never excluded any genre on my first record.
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Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.
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I read the final Wallander novel, 'The Troubled Man,' not long after it was published.
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It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.
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Every game he just makes so many outstanding plays for us. Not only with his runs, but with his pass receiving. He is our work horse and we are going to keep feeding him.
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.
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Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.
