Rick Bragg Quotes
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'
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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
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There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
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I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
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An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
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The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
