A Quote by Terry Gross

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

Terry Gross

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Terry Gross
American - Journalist
Born: February 14, 1951

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

Peter Orner

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

Jeff Vandermeer

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

Russell Simmons

That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.

Veronica Roth

For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.

Martin Niemoller

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

Antonya Nelson

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

S.A. Bodeen

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

Joyce Carol Oates

Even though the white-haired politician has no colorful wardrobe, after he speaks... you want to hug him. Why? Because what Bernie Sanders says feels like the truth. The unbridled truth. And he says it loud.

John Densmore

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

Russell Simmons

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

Ben Carson

Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.

Mahathir Mohamad

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.