"On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent."

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Source : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

Anthony Shadid

#War Quotes #Careers Quotes #Middle East Quotes

“Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.”
“Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.”
“To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.”
“We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.”
“World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?”
“You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no heed.”
“Well, guess what, Iâ€™m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.”
“had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them. Those roles and stories are out there. But unless you have the money to finance movies on your own, you're beholden to others, and that is a very big limiting factor.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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