"The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name."

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Source : "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.

Asne Seierstad

#Mean Quotes #Names Quotes #Risk Quotes

“LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.”
“I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2008). “Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2”, p.216, Simon and Schuster
“I had my young eyes opened by the impersonal blood and guts of news photography. I was running the gamut every low man on the totem pole runs - country clubs to mass murder.”
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
“I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Finn leaped from his horse to greet Enna, and she entwined herself into him, their arms around each other, their faces close. Thoug they did not kiss, Rin thought that the way they looked at each other was even more intimate. 'Let's get married,' Enna was saying with yearning in her voice. 'Please, let's get married right now.' Finn put his face into her neck and whispered something that made her hum.”
“Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.”
“There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.”

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