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"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
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"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech."
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"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."
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"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
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"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
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"The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism."
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"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
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"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
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"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."
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"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works."
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"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing
"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
Fame
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
Evil
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
Living
"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."
Acting
"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
World
"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."
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"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."
Art
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