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If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.
Hilton Als
Crazy
You
Own
Think
Imagination
Add
My Own
Feel
Journalistic
Towards
Freer
Like
Because
Context
Subject
Revisit
Essence
May
Just
Story
Then
Really
Assignment
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams
Typed
Out
Office
Where
Communications
Assignment
It's pretty amazing to write under any circumstances when someone gives you an assignment to write a song, even if it doesn't get accepted. I've written songs a couple of times, some for Disney, that haven't actually ended up in their films, but then you're left with a song forever.
Jenny Lewis
You
Song
Amazing
Films
Circumstances
Some
Pretty
Someone
Gives
Write
Songs
Written
Couple
Accepted
Left
Up
Times
Forever
Get
Ended
Any
Any Circumstances
Then
Disney
Even
Actually
Assignment
Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch
Attitude
Family
You
Conflict
Focus
Danger
About
Strongly
Potential
Except
Never
Biased
Subject
Refuse
Hold
Interest
Your
Assignment
It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.
John Frankenheimer
You
Business
Yourself
Way
Direct
Eclectic
Develop
Material
Subjects
Very
Commercial
Movie
Movie Business
Chooses
Assignment
Presented
Need
I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Science
World
Stress
Own
Way
Ways
Those
Able
Martial
Martial Arts
My Own
Buddhist
Knowing
Became
Practices
Reduction
Discovered
Arts
Grew
Loved
Which
Karmic
Unique
Bridge
Assignment
Program
Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.
Junior Seau
You
Game
Together
Tough
Chasing
Down
Focused
Easy
Athletes
Easy Thing
Perform
Adverse
Adverse Conditions
Dealing
Conditions
Get
Trying
Reporter
Being
Little
Plan
Game Plan
Assignment
Thing
Now, I'm not afraid. Or getting myself down about missing shots or missing an assignment late. The game goes on. You've got another chance. That's definitely a mental thing.
Khris Middleton
Myself
You
Game
Down
Late
Definitely
About
Mental
Missing
Another
Got
Goes
Getting
Afraid
Shots
Now
Assignment
Thing
Chance
For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.
Lester Holt
Government
You
Words
Economics
International Relations
Medicine
Other
Relations
Everything
Once
About
Someone
General
Simply
Know
Most
Schooled
Equally
Said
Been
Years
Lot
Impressed
Reporter
Being
In Other Words
Little
Means
Ignorant
International
Assignment
It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
Lindy Boggs
Me
Blessed
Congress
State
Has-Been
See
Given
Beyond
Been
Ambassador
Privilege
Louisiana
Holy
Belief
Assignment
I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.
Lydia Millet
You
World
Walk
Sky
Nothing
Back
Plot
Paragraph
Outdoors
Minutes
Only
Small
Point
Outside
Outside World
Look
Execute
Bow
Advise
Within
Passage
Go
Up
Five
Get
Sitting
Just
Wherever
Whether
Then
Stare
Assignment
Thing
If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc.
Lynsey Addario
First
Publish
Aid
Security
Administer
Someone
Put
Make
Sure
Access
Cover
His
Person
Expenses
Want
Stories
Experts
Etc
Certain
Should
Briefing
Publications
Her
Assignment
Images
With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.
Lynsey Addario
War
Myself
Me
Fear
Possibility
Photographers
Scared
Weigh
Allowing
Supposed
Looming
Hinder
Get
Being
Each
Assignment
I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.
Martti Ahtisaari
Work
God
You
Events
Saw
Stay
Following
Had
Institute
Know
Advertisement
Because
Felt
Permanent
Am
Been
Forever
Offered
Going
Just
Swedish
Teaching
International
Pakistan
Why
Assignment
Here
I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.
Nancy Horan
Time
Sometimes
Long
Beginning
Earnest
Our
Presidential
Married
Photographer
Small
Write
Long Periods
Put
Periods
Him
Were
Campaign
Trail
Candidates
Children
Places
Sent
Rough
Whose
Assignment
Career
Kevin
Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.
Ory Okolloh
You
Business
Experience
Will
Country
Homework
Local
Slice
Promoting
Allow
Doing
Whether
View
Your
Planning
Street
Assignment
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
P. J. Harvey
Work
Creative
Words
World
Become
Painting
Those
Drawing
Find
Some
Ongoing
Poetry
Songs
Toward
Well
Mostly
Always
Off
Same
Short
Being
Stories
Short Stories
Place
Them
Then
Assignment
Start
I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?
Paul Haggis
Work
Myself
Family
You
Man
Soul
Live
Week
He
Feed
Know
Piece
Chew
Off
Get
Did
Artist
Just
Swallow
Asked
Next
Assignment
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Phyllis Schlafly
History
Women
Win
National
Military
Way
Evidence
Jobs
Security
Promote
Proposition
Combat
Readiness
Offers
Improve
National Security
Wars
Assignment
To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world.
Rachel Hollis
Business
Fight
Women
Equality
World
Girl
Whatever
Young
Cute
Other
Honey
Adding
Our
Month
Way
Worst
Boss
Term
Qualify
Least
Pink
Role
Young Women
Themselves
View
Business World
Ridiculous
Media
Assignment
Disrespectful
Thinks
Babe
Damaging
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
Ralph H. Baer
Life
Me
Army
Matter
Tough
Later
Able
About
Learned
How
Get
Done
Being
Anything
Served
Assignment
Things
I read it in college as an assignment. I didn't think about it at the time. But when I heard there was a 'The Handmaid's Tale' pilot, I freaked out.
Reed Morano
Time
Pilot
College
Think
Out
Freaked
About
Tale
Read
Heard
Handmaid
Assignment
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.
Sloane Crosley
Class
Old
Build
Building
Herring
Nine
Featured
Could
Red
Instructions
Wrote
Practical
Course
How
Years
Short
Short Story
Story
Which
Meaningless
Series
Assignment
Techniques
Careful
When I was at the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' I was promoted nine times in my first 13 years. I ultimately went from general assignment to beats on St. Joe's and Temple, to backup writer, to NBA writer, to NBA columnist, to, ultimately, in 2003, to general sports columns.
Stephen A. Smith
Sports
First
Nine
Backup
Joe
Promoted
Temple
General
Writer
Beats
Columnist
Columns
Years
Ultimately
Times
NBA
Assignment
Philadelphia
Out of electronics school, my first assignment was to a fighter base in Florida. My roommate, Glen, would become my best friend in Florida and Thailand as we were sent to different air bases in Southeast Asia.
Steve Blank
Best
School
First
Become
Fighter
Air
Out
Would
Best Friend
Were
Friend
Southeast
Southeast Asia
Thailand
Different
Asia
Sent
Electronics
Base
Bases
Assignment
Florida
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
Tamron Hall
General
Knocking
Tragedy
Reporter
Door
After
Assignment
Early
Career
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