Destructive Quote by Leslie Cockburn

“When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.”

Leslie Cockburn

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“Are you a journalist?” “I’m a doctor.” “Good. We need doctors, Wallahi .” Sadoon scowled. “Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.”

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“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.”

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When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.

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When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet…

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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in…

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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

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“There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an Egyptian. Can…

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“Death was sweetened for the martyrs by the promise of 72 virgins waiting in paradise. She had researched the 72 virgins. The number wasn’t…

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I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

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In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

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“You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.” “Insha’Allah.”

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I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

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