Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams) Quotes
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.
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The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.
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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
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Max Askeli started this very good magazine The Reporter. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.
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Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.
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Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
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The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
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The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
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We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.
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We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.
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There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
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When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I'm rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. Really putting in every word and making a decision: is this something I can stand by?
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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.
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There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I got rid of all those reporters.
