Adam Clymer Quotes
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
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To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one’s ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
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I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.
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I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.
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When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
