Quotes by Beth Macy - Page 1

I grew up in a factory town - Urbana, Ohio.
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Ohio
Factory
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My husband and I like to listen to books on road trips.
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Trips
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You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust.
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Subjects
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You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.
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Attention
Light
Pay
Pay Attention
Shining
Start People Will
Hoping
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My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.
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Painter
Unemployed
By The Time
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Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.
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Assignments
Reporters
Better More Know
Better Know More
Photographers
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My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.
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Middle School
Dropped
Reads
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What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.
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Cry
Make Me Laugh
Always Me Hair
Neck
Laugh
Me Hair Always
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The heart of 'Truevine' is about the travails of two strong black women who agitate to get justice for their family.
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Agitate
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My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in the morning to finish it.
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Abraham
Cutting
Finish
Stayed
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I'm a unicorn in the world of journalism; I've stayed in the same mid-sized city, and that staying has allowed me to write two deeply-reported books.
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Journalism
Allowed
World City Me
Stayed
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If you have a choice between buying something in Vietnam or China or buying something made in Virginia, why not buy it from people in Virginia? A lot of times, it's not much more expensive or may even be less.
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Buying
Expensive
Vietnam
Virginia
Why Not
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From 1840 to 1940, the circus was the biggest form of entertainment in the country. People were starting to have money, starting to have half a Saturday off. In an era before people went on vacations much, the big deal was when the circus came through town.
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Big Deal
Circus
Saturday
Money People Country
Money Country People
Vacations
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I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she stood up to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey at a time where she was told where to work, where to sit, and she demanded that they pay attention to her.
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Education
Attention
Labor
Muse
Pay
Pay Attention
Whole
Life Time Work
Life Education Work
Did
Bailey
Brothers
Life Education Time
Read
Demanded
Harriet
Her
She
Sit
Stood
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So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today.
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Civil Rights
Incarceration
Marrow
Mass
Segregation
Uncomfortable
Life Today People
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