Top 21 Leslie Cockburn Quotes
#1. But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.
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#2. When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
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#3. 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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#4. You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins."
"Insha'Allah.
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#5. When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
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#6. I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
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#7. Why did you become a journalist?"
"Better than working for a living.
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#8. Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya. She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness and her shoes.
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#9. She had done her residency at LA County Hospital, where the CT machines were so old she had to mark off the body parts for scanning with paper clips. She thought Baghdad hospitals might be like that.
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#10. 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 you imagine? An Egyptian. That's inflation. This war," he said, leaning closer to her, "is all about money.
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#11. I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was 'assistant editor' on a forgettable low budget feature.
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#12. Yes, I know, I'm only an artist. What would I know about the dark side of Baghdad?
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#14. When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing.
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#15. The lapis lazuli worry beads, draped over his rear view mirror, swung back and forth like the hips of Scheherazade, Mohammed's favorite belly dancer, who refused, in spite of the war, to leave Baghdad.
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#16. I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
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#17. 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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#18. I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.
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#19. Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
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#20. 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.
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#21. In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
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