Serge Schmemann Quotes
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
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You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh yeah, I bet your other family is really thrilled.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
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One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.
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'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.
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Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.
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I have had experiences with both men and women and I'm proud of it.
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Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
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Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
