I think I'm this sort of perpetual outsider, I grew up most of my life in countries that … - Lydia Polgreen

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We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Lydia Polgreen

I think I'm this sort of perpetual outsider, I grew up most of my life in countries that were neither where I was born nor where either of my parents were from. I was part of a weird religion that nobody had heard of.

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I think the real sort of decision moment for me was president Donald Trump election night and just realizing that there was something happening in the country and in the world that had a very deep relationship to the nature of the current media landscape and that this opportunity that was in front of me could be a place to try to work on that. To try to fix what was going wrong and, or at least make an attempt.

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To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

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I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

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The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation. . . and had this sensibility of, like, there are people out there that are trying to screw you - and we're going expose them for it.

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Anything that I'm doing I think I always come at it from an outsider perspective. The first like real front page story that I had for the Times was about how after decades of battles over public restrooms in New York City, effectively chain stores had become the public restroom of choice for New Yorkers, it's sort of a silly little thing, but coming as an outsider, I was like 'Oh this is actually really interesting. '

City, Come, Real, Silly, Thing, Thinking

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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull. . . I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

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Sarah Palin

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

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Jeanette Winterson

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

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Arthur Frederick Saunders

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!

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Mano Khalil

Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie. " For me there is no border or wall between fiction and documentary filmmaking. In documentaries, you have to deal with real people and their real feelings - you are working with real laughter, happiness, sadness. To try to reflect the reality is not the same as reality itself. That's why I think that making a good documentary is much harder than making a good feature film.

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