Quotes by Anthony Shadid - Page 1

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Jobs
Bears
Witness
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Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Art
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Incomplete
Journalism
Pieces
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The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Journalism
Sometimes
Writing
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I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Dying
Taking Risks
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I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Better Off
Childhood
Thinking
Twisted
Great Childhood Always
Childhoods
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I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Elderly
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On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
War
Arab World
Careers
Covering
East
Flip
Middle East
War Myself World
Arab
Correspondent
Entire Career
War Correspondent
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In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Humanity
Important
Trying
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I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Covered
Government Officials
Officials
Syria
Activists
Leaves
Reporting
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The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Arab World
East
Lebanese
Meant To Be
Middle East
Life World My Life
Arab
Shaped
The One Thing
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Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Artist
Believe
Glasses
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The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.
Anthony Shadid / Correspondent
Bitterness
Iran
Middle Class
Sanctions
Decade
Invaded
Traumatized
Wiped
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