"Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity."

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Source : "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

Rebecca Mead

#Curiosity Quotes #Journalist Quotes #Qualifications Quotes

“How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.”
“I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.”
“The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.”
“Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.”
“The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.”
“I dont normally like getting dressed up, but when I go to events, I like to look put together. Ive got to say, getting in a nice suit feels good.”
“So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.”

Source : John Marsden (2011). “The Tomorrow Series: Tomorrow When the War Began”, p.153, Hachette UK
“Strong relationships are not rocked by a truth that is grounded by resolute monogamy.”

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