Haruki Murakami Quotes
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.
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I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.
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I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.
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It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.
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I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.
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[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
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We would all be naive if we didn't think that some of those messages weren't erased.
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The message sent is not always the message received.
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'
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Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.
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A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations.
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The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.
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A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.
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I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.
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As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
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Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as the heroine.
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I felt his presence every day, beginning with the first day.
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When I slept, armies of footnotes marched across my dreams in close-order drill.
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God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was.
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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
