"In America, people know there are always 10……" — Janine di Giovanni
"In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave."
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35 Quotes by Janine di Giovanni
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Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
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My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a…
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When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and…
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My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was…
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and…
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In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
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I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in…
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I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.
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Africa is a very dangerous place.
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Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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