Studs Terkel Quotes
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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I'm not a millionaire but I'm very comfortable doing what I do, and I'm more productive now than I was in my mid-20s. It's all down to functionality eventually. If you're functional it doesn't matter if you're mad.
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The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.
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I'm looking for human stories to do.
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As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
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I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.
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This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.
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Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.
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I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.
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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
