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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."
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"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about."
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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."
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"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food
"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."
Evolution
"Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again."
Nature
"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
Anxiety
"Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward."
Imagination
"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."
Environment
"I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification."
Change
"Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist."
Life
"Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share."
Behavior
"Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically."
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