#journal

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#hard #journalists #market #mercy #movie

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned journalism, and took to so much duller work: tutoring and private secretaryship. There is a good deal of drudgery, of course; but one preserves one's moral freedom, what we call in French one's quant a soi. And when one hears good talk one can join in it without compromising any opinions but one's own; or one can listen, and answer it inwardly. Ah, good conversation--there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. And so I have never regretted giving up either diplomacy or journalism--two different forms of the same self-abdication." He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. "Voyez-vous, Monsieur, to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it? But, after all, one must earn enough to pay for the garret; and I confess that to grow old as a private tutor--or a `private' anything--is almost as chilling to the imagination as a second secretaryship at Bucharest. Sometimes I feel I must make a plunge: an immense plunge. Do you suppose, for instance, there would be any opening for me in America-- in New York? ↗

— Edith Wharton

#journalism #liberty #age

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#pop-culture #press #life

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in. ↗

— Tina Brown

#afford #best #best way #better #break

And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there! ↗

— Meg Cabot

#princess #movies

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#cruel #english #especially #five #i

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#any #big #big fan #count #crazy

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#does #entering #good #journalism #least

I would never let myself knock out a journalist. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#journalist #knock #myself #never #out