Arthur Brisbane Quotes

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

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• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Always
  • Changing

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Home
  • Moments

• The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Fun
  • Best
  • First

• I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Woman
  • First
  • Step

• The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • People
  • Family
  • Success

• You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Country
  • Girl
  • City

• They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Right
  • Again

• No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Country
  • Future

• The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Driving

• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Words

• That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

  

  Annie Besant
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Song

• Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Important
  • May
  • Business

• If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Good

• Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.

  

  Kay Cannon

• Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

  

  John Crowley
  • Life

• If you have rooms that are very homogeneous, that have all had the same life experiences and educational backgrounds, and they're all relatively wealthy, their perspective on the world is going to mirror what they already know. That can be dangerous when we're making systems that will affect so many diverse populations.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Life
  • World
  • Perspective

• The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.

  

  Nathan Huggins
  • Public
  • Negro
  • Sold

• Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.

  

  Michael Oren
  • American
  • Mirror
  • Tendency

• A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

  

  Arthur Brisbane
  • Mirror
  • Public
  • Newspaper