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I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
Richard Rodney Bennett
Good
You
Science
Those
Aptitude
About
Good Thing
Catastrophe
Quaker
Schools
Encourage
Subjects
Which
Show
Games
Thing
My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.
Ridley Scott
Seems
Over
Subjects
Place
Which
Career
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
Robert Conquest
Everyone
About
He
Reactionary
Understands
Subjects
Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.
Robert Dallek
Dignity
Safety
Political
Will
Nation
Distortion
Charged
Demagoguery
Most
Particularly
Terrain
Policy
Vulnerable
Dealing
Does
Always
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Subjects
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
Robert Morgan
Family
Young
Everyone
Find
About
Only
Take
Writers
Almost
Almost Everyone
Since
Off
Subjects
Often
Stories
Place
Young Writers
Start
No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.
Roger Ebert
Art
Will
Able
Catharsis
None
Been
Provide
Subjects
Overwhelm
Suspect
Movie
Holocaust
Ever
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
Roger Penrose
Family
Father
Religious
Quaker
Came
Traditional
His
Lot
Subjects
Very
Did
Artist
Who
Professional
Portraits
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
Ron Suskind
News
Game
Treat
Discipline
Virtue
Books
Way
Ways
Some
More
Almost
Terms
Message
Access
Falling
Sources
Subjects
Reporters
Famous
Media
Default
Played
Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.
Ronald Frame
Homework
Teens
Spent
Sundays
Carrying
Ten
Fed
Simultaneously
Until
Am
Least
Were
Subjects
Up
Watered
As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.
Ronald Kessler
Me
You
Sometimes
Trouble
Secret
Books
Tell
Like
Subjects
Gets
Probe
Titles
Organizations
I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories.
Rose Tremain
Reality
Looking
Big
Day-To-Day
Territory
Always
Subjects
Very
Familiar
Stories
Which
Interested
Explore
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.
Rosemary Mahoney
Life
Best
You
Experience
People
Joy
Honor
Will
Picture
Real Life
Think
Intrigue
Possible
Reconstruct
Color
Writer
Most
Protest
Making
Real
Subjects
May
Interested
Them
Your
Useful
Useful Thing
Fullest
Thing
Hardship
Portrait
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
Sam Harris
Trust
Strange
Tend
Between
Journalists
Self-Deception
Subjects
Grow
Bonds
I have always chosen subjects which are little different, and not subjects that you see. That challenges me and the actors who work in the project.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Work
Me
You
Challenges
Project
See
Always
Subjects
Different
Which
Little
Who
Chosen
Actor
Take any movie from 'Khamoshi' to 'Black,' I was always clear about my subjects.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Black
About
Take
Clear
Always
Subjects
Any
Movie
I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.
Sarah Koenig
Time
You
Feelings
Robot
Think
Our
Unless
Spend
About
Journalists
Lot
Subjects
Reporters
Story
Mean
Themselves
Who
Honest
People who are new to photography always pull their subjects directly into the sun, which is the most unflattering light in the world.
Scott Kelby
Photography
People
World
Light
Sun
Directly
New
Most
Always
Subjects
Which
Who
Pull
I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.
Scott Rudin
Work
More
More Or Less
Make
Subjects
Very
Get
Want
Less
Lucky
Serious
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
Sebastian Thrun
Good
Complicated
Way
Entertaining
Ratings
Could
Take
Were
Subjects
Explain
Them
Teaching
Popular
Professor
My favorite subjects were astronomy, sociology, and gender studies. And I always loved math class; I have a thing for numbers. I played soccer freshman year and then realized I hate sweating, but looking back, I definitely should have kept up with sports.
Selah Louise Marley
Class
Sports
Hate
Gender
Looking
Looking Back
Year
Back
Definitely
Astronomy
Favorite
Studies
Always
Freshman
Freshman Year
Were
Math
Subjects
Up
Loved
Soccer
Sweating
Realized
Then
Should
Thing
Played
Sociology
Kept
Numbers
There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.
Serge Schmemann
Politics
Best
You
Law
Will
College
Feeling
Bet
About
Write
Environment
Roads
Study
Journalism
Subjects
Want
Whether
Your
Many
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
Shahid Khan
Time
You
Engineer
Long
Long Time
About
Rational
Long Time Ago
Learned
Subjects
Discussion
Get
Irrational
Want
False speech does harm to readers, who are misled by it; it does harm to journalism, which is weakened by it; and it does harm to the subjects of the speech, whose reputations and careers are damaged by it.
Shiva Ayyadurai
Weakened
Misled
Journalism
Readers
Does
False
Subjects
Which
Reputations
Who
Whose
Damaged
Careers
Harm
Speech
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
Stephen Ambrose
Clark
Tried
Easy
Admirable
Fair
Likable
Always
Subjects
Eisenhower
Lewis
Lewis And Clark
Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.
Stephen Jay Gould
Three
Evolution
Most
Sciences
Subjects
Fascinating
Two
I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest. Because I also want to be an architect when I grow up, if I can, and I know that being an architect takes a lot of math in it.
Sterling Beaumon
Though
Architect
Takes
Know
Also
Because
Go
Math
Lot
Subjects
Up
Going
Being
Want
Even
Grow
Grow Up
Harder
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