"You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a sense of confidence in the public in their own abilities before a disaster because they're the only ones who are going to be there. No one's going to help you for at least 24 to 72 hours. So it would be good to know more about it."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Amanda Ripley

#People Quotes #Important Quotes #Information Quotes

“I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder”
“Theirs is the present who can praise the past.”

Source : Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”
“My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.”
“It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.”
“I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.”
“At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to. But I spent two and a half years in India and chose to do stories about women because I was shocked by their treatment. My stories in the Middle East and on the border of Europe and Asia were a response to my time in India. They weren't driven by a feminist idea but when you're moved by women's issues in these countries you can't help becoming a feminist somehow.”
“Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.”
“As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.”

Source : Interview with William Goodman, www.spin.com. July 16, 2010.

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