"After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when……" — Leslie Cockburn
"After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure."
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9 Quotes by Leslie Cockburn
Leslie Cockburn has 9 quotes on this site.
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When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most revealing…
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I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
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Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that…
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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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In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
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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…
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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