Quotes by Jonathan Franklin - Page 1

It is a gift to be a teenager, and I see a dad's job as lifeguard, not chaperone.
Jonathan Franklin /
Lifeguard
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I have lived in Chile since 1996 and reported from Chile since 1989, so I know the nation better than my native Massachusetts.
Jonathan Franklin /
Chile
Massachusetts
Native
Reported
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Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.
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Deprivation
Sensory
Torture
Men World Will
Practically
Reads
Textbook
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I have interviewed Hugo Chavez, Tim McVeigh, and hundreds of fascinating characters in South America, where I have lived for the past 15 years.
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Chavez
Fascinating
South America
Hugo
Hundreds
Tim
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Environmental activists in the rough Antarctic seas have launched a new tool in the fight to stop a Japanese operation to kill hundreds of whales: remote-controlled drones.
Jonathan Franklin /
Environmental
Drones
Rough
Whales
Activists
Hundreds
Japanese
Operation
Seas
Tool
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In the U.S. and much of Europe, the sale, distribution, and use of offset printers are watched closely by anti-counterfeiting units. In Peru, however, the offset industry is a free-for-all.
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Distribution
Peru
Units
Watched
Closely
Offset
Printers
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Vegetarians are doomed in the Chilean street-food scene, though if they are willing to ingest small quantities of lard, they can enjoy the ever-popular squash, salt and lard biscuits known as sopaipillas.
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Biscuits
Doomed
Salt
Squash
Quantities
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When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you'd have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.
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Ill
Take Care
When All Else Fails
Daughters
Comforted
Fails
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I could have been a top notch spy. People confess the most amazing secrets to me, even when I am not fishing for those nuggets. I must look trustworthy because I sit there with a video camera or a tape recorder while the stories pour out.
Jonathan Franklin /
Fishing
Most Amazing
Spy
Tape
Trustworthy
Confess
Amazing Look Me
Notch
Pour
Recorder
Secrets
Tape Recorder
Video Camera
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In Peru, awareness of fake currency is so high that retail shops regularly provide cashiers with hole punchers. When a fake bill is received, the cashier quickly pops out a few holes before curtly returning the bill to an oft-surprised client.
Jonathan Franklin /
Currency
Fake
Holes
Peru
Pops
Retail
Shops
Client
Hole
Received
Regularly
Returning
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My father Tom was a workaholic who never missed a single one of my sporting events for nearly two decades, and imparted in me a sense of risk and adventure. Being the one in the middle, I had more room to drift, and after college, I left the U.S. for Chile.
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Adventure
Chile
Decades
Me Father Never
Nearly
Drift
Father Me Never
Missed
Tom
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Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food - it is also rarely available even on request.
Jonathan Franklin /
Absent
Available
Bland
Cuisine
Foreigners
Latin
Latin American
Mayonnaise
Request
Salt
Spicy
Vinegar
Conspicuously
Pepper
Rarely
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I feel best in a ragged pair of red Honda Motorcycle pants. I have taken them to Machu Picchu, to the Knob Creek Machine Gun festival, and backstage to Cirque du Soleil - just the right touch to make you untouchable. No one quite dares to throw you out, because perhaps you are a world class motocross racer.
Jonathan Franklin /
Gun
Honda
Motorcycle
Ragged
Backstage
Creek
Dares
Untouchable
Festival
Machine Gun
Pair
Racer
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I would like to be remembered as the reporter who snuck back stage to all the off-limits shows, be it the Vatican dressing room, the Pentagon war room, or the Celtics locker room. Some curtains ought never to be pulled back; others deserve to be ripped down. When appropriate, I want to be the curtain remover.
Jonathan Franklin /
Appropriate
Deserve
Locker Room
Ought
Pentagon
Remembered
Ripped
Curtain
Reporter
Dressing
Dressing Room
Locker
Pulled
Vatican
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There's nothing very exotic about classic Chilean street food. Imagine a hot dog hidden beneath an explosion of mayonnaise and ketchup. Cost? Twenty-five to 30 pence. This is the completo, an all-purpose solution to breakfast, lunch or, once, the curiously English teatime snack enjoyed by Chileans of all ages.
Jonathan Franklin /
Breakfast
Classic
Exotic
Hot Dog
Lunch
Mayonnaise
Twenty Five
Ages
Beneath
Curiously
Explosion
Hidden
Solution
Snack
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I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners' story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility.
Jonathan Franklin /
Combination
Deeper
Individuality
Miners
Burner
Collective
Dug
Interviewing
Simultaneously
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Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.
Jonathan Franklin /
Development
Half
Hotel
Human Development
Mountain
Rugged
Spine
Visible
Border
Finally
Spot
Peak
Sign
Valley
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The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.
Jonathan Franklin /
Editors
Embrace
Fate
Miners
Reporters
Shortage
Trapped
Time Men World
Abound
Heroes
Global
Hundreds
Planet
Press
Rescued
Search
Thousands
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Andean skiing offers an unforgettable combination of beach-style weather, great snow and exotic travel. There are many attractions. Here on the fringes of the Andes, skiers will find few lift queues, tickets 50% cheaper than France, and unique scenery that includes condors and Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak outside the Himalayas.
Jonathan Franklin /
Travel
Cheaper
Combination
Exotic
France
Offers
Scenery
Skiers
Snow
Tickets
Unforgettable
Unique
Weather
Attractions
Few
Lift
Mount
Outside
Peak
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Style-wise, Valle Nevado is what can only be described as 'hip international.' Brazilians, Chileans and Europeans make the place seem like an electronic music festival transported to an remote Andean valley. Huge speakers blare out thumping, bass-heavy music, while promotoras stalk the staircases selling everything from Red Bull to mobile phones.
Jonathan Franklin /
Electronic Music
Huge
International
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Phones
Red
Red Bull
Selling
Speakers
Bull
Electronic
Europeans
Festival
Hip
Remote
Seem
Valley
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