Elizabeth Crook Quotes

When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.

Elizabeth Crook

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• I'm not into the attention thing so much.

  

  Flume
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• You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.

  

  Vince Gilligan
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• If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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• And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

  

  Lord Dunsany
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• Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.

  

  Rachel Morrison
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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  

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• Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

  

  William McKinley
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• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
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• Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

  

  Jane Austen
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• There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime.

  

  Jonathan Swift
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• If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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• Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

  

  Erica Jong
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• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Stars
  • Flesh

• When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Prize