Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.
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Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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Words are all we have.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.
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I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
