Ken Auletta Quotes
Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
Quotes to Explore
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.
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You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.
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The characters write the plot. Their natures do.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.
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I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise!
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Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.
