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"In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China."
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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."
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"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
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"So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!"
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
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"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
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"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
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"China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there."
People
"I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit."
Time
"In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China."
Media
"I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China."
Beauty
"I always wanted to be a writer."
Ambition
"I feel perhaps my heart is still in China."
Heart
"When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family."
Family
"I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned."
Love
"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."
Family
"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."
Evil
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