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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
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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
Career
Enjoy
World
" 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
Appreciate
War
Understanding
" Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces. "
Anthony Shadid
Journalism
You
Always
" I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for. "
Anthony Shadid
Taking Risks
Story
Dying
" 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
My Life
Back
Life
" 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
People
Doing
Family