"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on……" — Melvin Maddocks
"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
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9 Quotes by Melvin Maddocks
Melvin Maddocks has 9 quotes on this site.
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It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
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Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
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Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is…
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Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.
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Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough facts and gave them a fast stir,…
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To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
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Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence,…
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More Defensive Quotes
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one of 232 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I…
— Jo Brand
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
— Robert Burns
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
— Francesca Annis
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The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to…
— Bobby Knight
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.
— Tex Winter
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Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made…
— Tex Winter
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling…
— Henri Nouwen
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If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
— Don Meyer
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I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that…
— Steve Nash
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