Anthony Shadid quotes
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“The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.”
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“I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.”
-- Anthony ShadidSource : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.
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“Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.”
-- Anthony ShadidSource : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.
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“On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.”
-- Anthony ShadidSource : "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.
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“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.”
-- Anthony ShadidSource : Anthony Shadid (2012). “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.”
-- Anthony ShadidSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.”
-- Anthony ShadidSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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