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A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.
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David Simon
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: February 9
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David Judah Simon
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I'm just a swell guy. No, that's a ridiculous notion - if you're being an asshole to people, you're being an asshole, that's all there is to it. It can't be rationalized because you wrote something worthwhile. First obligation is to other people.
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Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.
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The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.
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People from here will often say, I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans.
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Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.
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It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow.
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What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has
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It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
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There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader ... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.
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There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
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Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that way we didn't kill him because of anything he did, we don't kill off actors just to do it.
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On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
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Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.
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A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
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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.
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We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.
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Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.
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The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.
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I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.
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Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing
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