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" I love apples. I actually do eat an apple a day. "
Lawrence Wright
Apple
Day
Apples
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" The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. "
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" When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. "
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" Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create. "
Lawrence Wright
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Prosper
" Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism. "
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" There are a lot of reporters who I feel are a lot more courageous and fool-hardy than I am. Maybe at the top I'd put Dexter Filkins. He's an extraordinary man in terms of his nerve and ability to get into dangerous situations and tell the story cogently. He's bringing back real human stories. I admire that. "
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" People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do. "
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You
World
" I like the serendipitous surprises of reality. "
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Like
Reality
Surprises
" What is interesting to me about film, and documentary film in particular, is that I can write about these people, and you trust my judgment, more or less, but when you're confronted yourself with humans who are right there on the screen telling you their story, you make a judgment yourself that is conclusive. "
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Yourself
Story
Trust
" Scientology plays an outsize role in the cast of new religions that have arisen in the 20th century and survived into the 21st. "
Lawrence Wright
20th Century
Religions
New
" I deplore sexual harassment. "
Lawrence Wright
Sexual
Harassment
" A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. "
Lawrence Wright
Donkey
Burden
Very
" Dallas was not a caring city, but it was efficient. "
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Caring
Dallas
Efficient
" The Middle East has been a part of my life since I was a young man, when I went to teach in Cairo. "
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Teach
Life
Man
" IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not. "
Lawrence Wright
Religion
Very
IRS
" You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand. "
Lawrence Wright
Want
Understand
Story
" I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings. "
Lawrence Wright
Politics
Grateful
May
" I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. "
Lawrence Wright
America
Hold
Responsible
" This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict. "
Lawrence Wright
Feeling
End
Society
" When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. "
Lawrence Wright
Word
Movement
Me
" I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years. "
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Two
American
Years
" Dallas was a place where dreamers like my father were given a chance. "
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Place
Dreamers
Chance
" Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation. "
Lawrence Wright
Used
Tactics
Organization
" I get very antsy when I'm not occupied. "
Lawrence Wright
Very
Antsy
Get
" When you're first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don't know very much, and you know that you're going to be ignorant and seem ignorant. "
Lawrence Wright
You
Ignorant
Feel
" The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life. "
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Life
New
Interesting
" Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. "
Lawrence Wright
Everybody
Journalism
Rule
" If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated. "
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Bin
Whatever
Call
" Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways. "
Lawrence Wright
Film
Down
Stage
" Every form has its merits. And I like to work in a lot of different forms. "
Lawrence Wright
Like
Work
Lot
" Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society. "
Lawrence Wright
Obscure
Society
Contempt