Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation. ”

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. ”

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. ”

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ”

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships. ”

I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption. ”

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. ”

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look. ”

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak. ”

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. ”