"Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them."

-- Serge Schmemann

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I have always believed that this idea of having a nation go through this very painful five or six years of continuous recession with high unemployment would be detrimental for the economy and the society.”
“No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.”
“I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.”
“You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?”

Source : Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.26, The Floating Press
“I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.”
“If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroyingâ€”or at least deconstructingâ€”conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichÃ©s of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”
“The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting our personal feelings about the things that we see. Or to put it crudely, how are you going to be a storyteller if you have no story to tell? Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; they are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.”
“You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share.”

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