Erin Siegal McIntyre Quotes
I don't think crowdfunding is a good idea for journalism in general. Good work should be supported by news organizations, and publishers should pony up money to support investigative reporting. But we're in hard times, so there are upsides and downsides to it.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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You can never figure out what the future sounds like. As soon as you make it, it's the past.
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Pixar make kids' movies, but there are jokes in there for adults, and it never gets too sentimental.
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I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other geniuses who were in my school.
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A lot of players get to a certain point they don't want to make mistakes. They just want everyone to see how great they are. That ends up being their downfall. You put a cap on yourself.
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Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.
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As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.
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Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.
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But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
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Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.
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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
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Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
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If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.
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I don't think crowdfunding is a good idea for journalism in general. Good work should be supported by news organizations, and publishers should pony up money to support investigative reporting. But we're in hard times, so there are upsides and downsides to it.
