"A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander."

-- George William Curtis

#Echoes Quotes #Journalism Quotes #Should Quotes

“I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.”
“Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.”
“As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It's not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That's what I'm trying to do.”
“It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.”
“For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.”
“If youâ€™re frustrated because youâ€™re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you havenâ€™t, stop complaining. You canâ€™t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, â€œHey, can I have that?”
“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”
“People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.”

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