Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes
Before the web and these highly focused entities, journalists got to decide what was important to tell their audience and educated their readers. Now, journalists have to try and understand what their consumer actually wants to read and what angle they are looking for in order to keep audiences engaged in a highly competitive world.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.
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The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.
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Partial answers on the questions: 'And what did you mean when you said you would come back? Would you lobby Congress? Maybe explore the political arena again?'
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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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Before the web and these highly focused entities, journalists got to decide what was important to tell their audience and educated their readers. Now, journalists have to try and understand what their consumer actually wants to read and what angle they are looking for in order to keep audiences engaged in a highly competitive world.
