#actual

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. ↗

— David Simon

#actually #almost #best #contemporary #inclined

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it. ↗

— Paul Simon

#agree #always #criticism #exception #i

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#away #bad #being #car #did

I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#also #had #i #liked #outfit

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it. ↗

— Christian Slater

#disregard #english #factual #history #hollywood

I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#always #aware #because #been #breast cancer

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books. ↗

— George Stephen

#books #effect #first #sale #two

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#after #another #any #back #bond

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#began #could #dean #fantasy #guy