"But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public"

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Research Quotes #Just Being Quotes #Producers Quotes

“Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.”
“As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.”
“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.”
“I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.”
“Few people become assholes reluctantly.”

Source : Geoffrey Nunberg (2013). “Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years”, p.163, PublicAffairs
“One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.”

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