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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#asking #concentrating #disadvantage #faith #future

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#charge #controlling #crucially #flow #information

Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one. ↗


— Ian Mckellen


#actor #also #always #asked #become

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. ↗


— Ian Mcewan


#masters #novelists #novels #say #spy

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. ↗


— Todor Zhivkov


#journalist #people #people say #say #supposed

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me. ↗


— Stephenie Meyer


#going #having #hit #how #i

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment. ↗


— Nancy Meyers


#after #college #film #film school #go

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music. ↗


— George Michael


#i #joy #like #listening #music

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. ↗


— James Nathan Miller


#conversation #know #life #listen #provided

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. ↗


— Jonathan Miller


#clearly #developed #einstein #first #had






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