Erin Siegal McIntyre famous quotes

Once you produce a product and it goes out into the world, whether that's to a newswire or an agency or whatever, you don't have control over it.
-- Erin Siegal McIntyre

#World #Over It

My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.
-- Erin Siegal McIntyre

#Responsibility #Photographer

American public should understand what happened with adoption and why, so that our government can be held accountable moving forward, and we can know how to engage in ethical adoptions, know how to make it something good for everyone involved, not exploitative.
-- Erin Siegal McIntyre

#Moving #Moving Forward #Adoption

I was always looking for holes in the stories, to the very end, until I was really satisfied that I believed in it and could back it up five different ways.
-- Erin Siegal McIntyre

#Different

If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.
-- Erin Siegal McIntyre

#Share

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.
-- Erin Siegal McIntyre

#Hard Times #Thinking #Support

One of my failings as a new reporter is that I don't know when to stop. It's a very fine line, and I think that's a really important skill to have - to know when to stop asking questions. I’m still trying to figure that out.
-- Erin Siegal McIntyre

#Thinking #Important #Trying

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.