Kentucky to the World
Dana Canedy
7/7/2023 | 42m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Dana Canedy speaks with Richard Green about her career and growing up in Kentucky.
Dana Canedy is senior vice president and publisher of Simon and Schuster, the first African American to lead a top U.S. publishing imprint. She speaks with Richard Green, former editor of the Courier Journal, about her career and growing up in Kentucky.
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Kentucky to the World
Dana Canedy
7/7/2023 | 42m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Dana Canedy is senior vice president and publisher of Simon and Schuster, the first African American to lead a top U.S. publishing imprint. She speaks with Richard Green, former editor of the Courier Journal, about her career and growing up in Kentucky.
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line:85% position:14% size:30% EJ MITCHELL.
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line:85% position:36% size:73% >> YEAH, SO I HAD A WONDERFUL line:85% position:14% size:28% TIME AT UK.
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line:85% position:22% size:55% >> GOD BLESS HIS SOUL.
line:85% position:27% size:63% >> REST HIS SOUL, WHO WAS line:85% position:44% size:78% ANOTHER BLACK STUDENT THERE WHO line:85% position:31% size:68% ENDED UP GOING TO "THE WALL line:85% position:36% size:73% STREET JOURNAL" AND WINNING A line:85% position:33% size:70% PULITZER PRIZE FOR "THE WALL line:85% position:36% size:73% STREET JOURNAL," THEY WERE MY line:85% position:33% size:70% EDITORS, THEY WERE EDITING A line:85% position:44% size:78% STORY WHERE THE PROFESSORS WITH line:85% position:36% size:73% A KEY SOURCE IN THE STORE HE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THEY HAD QUESTIONS AND BE A line:85% position:50% size:80% SATURDAY THEY SAID I HAD TO CALL line:85% position:24% size:58% AND ON CALL ON FOLLOWUP line:85% position:44% size:78% QUESTIONS AND I REMEMBER SAYING line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT IT'S SATURDAY, I CAN'T CALL line:85% position:14% size:30% HER AT HOME.
line:85% position:25% size:60% THAT WAS ONE OF MY EARLY line:85% position:13% size:20% LESSONS.
line:85% position:25% size:60% AND WHAT IT TOOK TO BE A line:85% position:14% size:28% JOURNALIST.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND YOU CAN IMAGINE GOING FROM line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT TO BEING A JOURNALIST AT line:85% position:21% size:53% THE "NEW YORK TIMES."
line:85% position:50% size:80% I MEAN I HAVE INTERVIEWED PEOPLE line:85% position:44% size:78% IN CEMETERIES AND HOSPITALS AND line:85% position:50% size:80% PRISONS, BUT ON THAT DAY BACK IN line:85% position:44% size:78% THE '80S, I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT line:85% position:31% size:68% DISTURBING A PROFESSOR ON A line:85% position:13% size:23% SATURDAY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> THE LESSONS WE LEARNED AT A line:85% position:13% size:25% YOUNG AGE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT line:85% position:40% size:75% ABOUT SOME OF THOSE OBSTACLES.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I MEAN DANA, YOU ARE STILL AT line:85% position:44% size:78% THE HEIGHT OF YOUR GAME AND YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% HAVE ACCOMPLISHED SO MUCH IN line:85% position:40% size:75% SUCH A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD line:85% position:13% size:20% OF TIME.
line:85% position:31% size:68% ALL OF US IN OUR RESPECTIVE line:85% position:33% size:70% POSITIONS BUT YOU AND I BOTH line:85% position:29% size:65% COMING FROM THE JOURNALISM line:85% position:24% size:58% WORLD, WE HAVE OVERCOME line:85% position:29% size:65% DIFFERENT OBSTACLES IN OUR line:85% position:50% size:80% CAREERS AND THERE HAVE BEEN SOME line:85% position:33% size:70% TOUGH LESSONS ALONG THE WAY, line:85% position:44% size:78% WOULD YOU MIND SHARING, WHAT IS line:85% position:36% size:73% ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS OF GREAT line:85% position:44% size:78% REFLECTION THAT WAS A CHALLENGE line:85% position:44% size:78% OR OBSTACLE YOU HAD TO OVERCOME line:85% position:36% size:73% AND HELPED SHAPE YOUR CAREER.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT.
line:85% position:29% size:65% I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% BEFORE I ANSWER, I NEED TO SAY line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT THE WAY I LIVE MI LIFE AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THE WAY I TRY TO TEACH, INSTILL line:85% position:50% size:80% SOME THINGS IN MY SON, I BELIEVE line:85% position:25% size:60% IN LIVING WITH OPTIMISM.
line:85% position:13% size:20% AND JOY.
line:85% position:33% size:70% YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD SOME HARD line:85% position:44% size:78% EXPERIENCES IN MY PERSONAL LIFE line:85% position:36% size:73% WITH THE LOSS OF MY FIANCE AS line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU KNOW, WHO DIED IN COMBAT IN line:85% position:50% size:80% IRAQ WHEN OUR SON WAS SIX MONTHS line:85% position:11% size:10% OLD.
line:85% position:29% size:65% HAVE I HAD SOME OTHER HARD line:85% position:13% size:20% MOMENTS.
line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT AT MY CORE I AM A PERSON WHO line:85% position:33% size:70% IS INCREDIBLY OPTIMISTIC AND line:85% position:14% size:28% LOVES LIFE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% THIS ISN'T A DRESS REHEARSAL TRK line:85% position:15% size:35% IS ALL WE GET.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND I REALLY LIKE THE SIMPLE line:85% position:50% size:80% THINGS AM I LOVE TO THIS DAY THE line:85% position:15% size:35% SMELL OF RAIN.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND I LOVE THE OCEAN AND YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% KNOW, I LOVE THE SOUND OF A line:85% position:40% size:75% CHILD'S LAUGH STER-- LAUGHTER.
line:85% position:50% size:80% SO I ALWAYS TRY TO GET BACK TO A line:85% position:29% size:65% CENTER OF JOY AND IT'S NOT line:85% position:36% size:73% ALWAYS EASY TO DO IN MY LIFE.
line:85% position:17% size:40% IT REALLY ISN'T.
line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT THERE HAVE BEEN MOMENTS THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% ARE TOUGH, BUT I THINK THAT CORE line:85% position:33% size:70% OPTIMISM AND SENSE OF WONDER line:85% position:31% size:68% ABOUT THE WORLD AND LOVE OF line:85% position:44% size:78% PEOPLE, KEEPS ME COMING BACK TO line:85% position:13% size:23% WHO I AM.
line:85% position:25% size:60% AND SO KEEPS THINGS FROM line:85% position:14% size:30% BREAKING ME.
line:85% position:27% size:63% I ALSO JUST HAVE A LOT OF line:85% position:50% size:80% EXCITEMENT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT line:85% position:36% size:73% I FEEL IS A CALLING, WHICH IS line:85% position:50% size:80% THE PROFESSION AND THE VOICE AND line:85% position:40% size:75% THE PLATFORM I HAVE BEEN GIVEN line:85% position:16% size:38% TO HELP OTHERS.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND SO THERE WERE MOMENTS LIKE I line:85% position:33% size:70% REMEMBER INTERVIEWING FOR AN line:85% position:40% size:75% INTERNSHIP AT THE LOCAL CAREER line:85% position:40% size:75% JOURNAL, AND TIMES AT THE TIME line:85% position:36% size:73% THE PAPER WAS THE TIMES AND I line:85% position:50% size:80% WAS THERE WITH A GROUP OF FOLKS, line:85% position:33% size:70% A GROUP OF STUDENTS INTERYOU line:85% position:33% size:70% HAVING AND REALLY WONDERFUL, line:85% position:44% size:78% WONDERFUL HOPEFUL STUDENTS LIKE line:85% position:44% size:78% ME, WE DECIDED TO GO OUT, THERE line:85% position:25% size:60% WERE MAYBE 8 OR 9 OF US.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> CARRYING MY RESUME AND STUFF line:85% position:31% size:68% IN A PLASTIC BINDER WE WERE line:85% position:40% size:75% WALKING DOWN THE STREET, PROUD line:85% position:29% size:65% OF HOW THE INTERVIEWS WERE line:85% position:36% size:73% GOING, THERE WAS A MAN ON THE line:85% position:50% size:80% SIDEWALK, I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS line:85% position:40% size:75% HOMELESS OR YOU KNOW, DES POND line:85% position:44% size:78% ENT OR WHAT HAVE YOU AND YELLED line:85% position:40% size:75% THE "N" WORD AT ME IN FRONT OF line:85% position:13% size:23% EVERYONE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I WAS THE ONLY BLACK PERSON line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE AND ALL THE STUDENTS JUST line:85% position:36% size:73% STOPPED AND FROZE AND STAIRED line:85% position:24% size:58% AND LOOKED AT ME FOR MY line:85% position:13% size:23% REACTION.
line:85% position:25% size:60% AND I JUST KEPT WALKING.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND IN THAT MOMENT I THOUGHT YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% KNOW WHAT, I'M GOING TO STEP line:85% position:33% size:70% OVER HIM LITERALLY AM I WILL line:85% position:50% size:80% STEP OVER HIM AND KEEP GOING AND line:85% position:44% size:78% HE MAY STILL BE SITTING IN THAT line:85% position:21% size:53% SPOT A YEAR FROM NOW.
line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT I'M GOING TO GO AND GET THIS line:85% position:50% size:80% INTERNSHIP, WHICH IS WHAT I DID.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> AND WE STILL HAVE YOUR BILINE line:85% position:33% size:70% STORIES AROUND OUR NEWSROOM.
line:85% position:31% size:68% >> OH GOSH, NO, OH MY GOSH, line:85% position:36% size:73% PLEASE, BURN THEM FOR ANYBODY line:85% position:17% size:40% THAT SEEMS THEM.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> I HAVEN'T BROKE OUT THE GREEN line:85% position:50% size:80% PEN OR ANYTHING, BUT I WAS GOING line:85% position:29% size:65% THROUGH AM SO OF OUR FILES line:85% position:29% size:65% BEFORE THE INTERVIEW, CAME line:85% position:40% size:75% ACROSS SOME OF THEM, AND JUST, line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU LEARN AS WE GET OLDER THIS line:85% position:33% size:70% WORLD IS AS BIG AS IT IS, IS line:85% position:17% size:43% INCREDIBLY SMALL.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I'M STRUCK BY SOMETHING YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% JUST SAID ABOUT OPTIMISM AND line:85% position:11% size:10% JOY.
line:85% position:50% size:80% IT WILL PROBABLY AIR EARLY 2021, line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU TALK ABOUT OPTIMISM AND JOY line:85% position:44% size:78% AND IT FEELS TO ME HERE WHERE I line:85% position:50% size:80% AM IN LOUISVILLE, BOY, IT'S HARD line:85% position:24% size:58% TO FIND THAT RIGHT NOW.
line:85% position:14% size:28% >> SURE IS.
line:85% position:27% size:63% >> FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT line:85% position:13% size:20% REASONS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT line:85% position:33% size:70% YOUR OBSERVATION ON THAT AND line:85% position:31% size:68% BASICALLY HOW THAT WORKS IN line:85% position:50% size:80% TANDEM WITH YOUR VISION AND YOUR line:85% position:31% size:68% NEW RULE THERE AT SIMON AND line:85% position:13% size:23% SCHUSTER.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> YES, OF COURSE, THANK YOU.
line:85% position:36% size:73% FIRST OF ALL, PEOPLE LIKE YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% WHO CARE AND GET IT GIVE ME line:85% position:11% size:13% HOPE.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND PEOPLE LIKE MY SON AND HIS line:85% position:22% size:55% FRIENDS WHO JUST DON'T line:85% position:40% size:75% UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU line:85% position:27% size:63% MEAN THERE WAS A TIME YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% COULDN'T LIVE IN THIS HOUSE line:85% position:24% size:58% BECAUSE YOU WERE BLACK?
line:85% position:13% size:23% YOU KNOW.
line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU MEAN THERE WAS A TIME, FILL line:85% position:15% size:33% IN THE BLANK.
line:85% position:22% size:55% THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND THAT GIVES ME HOPE, MY SON line:85% position:36% size:73% HAS FRIENDS OF ALL KINDS, ALL line:85% position:18% size:45% RACES, ALL CREEDS.
line:85% position:27% size:63% AND THE FACT THAT ANOTHER line:85% position:36% size:73% GENERATION THINKS THAT-- THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% THOSE THINGS DON'T MAKE SENSE line:85% position:36% size:73% AND FUNDAMENTALLY THAT IS NOT line:85% position:36% size:73% HOW THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE, IS line:85% position:13% size:20% HOPEFUL.
line:85% position:40% size:75% WE HAD IN THE '50S AND '60S AS line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU KNOW, A HUGE MIGHTY STRUG line:85% position:40% size:75% NELL THIS COUNTRY AROUND CIVIL line:85% position:12% size:18% RIGHTS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND WE ARE GOING THRAW A SECOND line:85% position:36% size:73% CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, BUT MY line:85% position:36% size:73% GOSH, LOOK AT THE RAINBOW OUT line:85% position:17% size:43% THERE, OF PEOPLE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU KNOW, IT'S NO LONGER JUST A line:85% position:27% size:63% MOVEMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% LIKE THERE ARE PEOPLE FROM EVERY line:85% position:50% size:80% WALK OF LIFE, EVERY RELIGION, EF line:85% position:21% size:53% RECREED, EVERY COLOR.
line:85% position:19% size:48% THAT GIVES ME HOPE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% NOW WE ARE GOING THROUGH SOME line:85% position:31% size:68% INCREDIBLY PAINFUL MOMENTS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND I DON'T THINK WHAT WE'RE line:85% position:50% size:80% GOING THROUGH ANY MORE HAS TO DO line:85% position:40% size:75% WITH REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT, I line:85% position:40% size:75% REALLY DON'T IT HAS TO DO WITH line:85% position:31% size:68% BEING A HUMAN BEING, RIGHT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER AND line:85% position:50% size:80% WHETHER WE FUNDAMENTALLY BELIEVE line:85% position:29% size:65% WE ARE OUR BROTHER AND OUR line:85% position:50% size:80% SISTER'S KEEPER, AS I DO, RIGHT, line:85% position:36% size:73% AND WHETHER WE WANT TO UPLIFT line:85% position:25% size:60% EACH OTHER, THAT WILL BE line:85% position:40% size:75% ANSWERED VERY SOON, I THINK IN line:85% position:15% size:35% THIS ELECTION.
line:85% position:31% size:68% HOWEVER, REGARDLESS OF WHAT line:85% position:31% size:68% HAPPENS IN THE ELECTION AND line:85% position:36% size:73% REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS IN line:85% position:40% size:75% THE AFTERMATH OF THE ELECTION, line:85% position:36% size:73% I'M REALLY WORRIED ABOUT, YOU line:85% position:40% size:75% KNOW, A CIVIL WAR OR SOMETHING line:85% position:13% size:25% LIKE THAT.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND A YEAR AGO SOMEBODY SAID line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY WERE BEING HYPERBOLIC AND A line:85% position:15% size:33% LITTLE CRAZY.
line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS, line:85% position:50% size:80% IN THIS COUNTRY IT'S ALWAYS BEEN line:85% position:50% size:80% TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK line:85% position:27% size:63% AND IN THE WORLD FRACKLY.
line:85% position:31% size:68% AND SO WE'RE IN A STEP BACK line:85% position:50% size:80% MOMENT BUT WE WILL KEEP STEPPING line:85% position:13% size:20% FORWARD.
line:85% position:44% size:78% PRESSURE MAKES A DIAMOND AND WE line:85% position:50% size:80% WILL CONTINUE TO SHINE, WE WILL.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THIS IS A PAINFUL MOMENT BUT WE line:85% position:21% size:53% HAVE TO STAY FOCUSED.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND THE WAY YOU DO THAT IS TO line:85% position:40% size:75% TRY TO NOT LET THE PAIN OR THE line:85% position:40% size:75% ANGER OR WHAT HAVE YOU CONSUME line:85% position:11% size:10% YOU.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SO HERE IS A VERY SPECIFIC line:85% position:13% size:20% EXAMPLE.
line:85% position:25% size:60% I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THE line:85% position:40% size:75% PRESIDENT CALLED FALLEN HEROES line:85% position:29% size:65% SUCKERS AND LOSERS OR NOT.
line:85% position:36% size:73% BUT MANY JOURNALISTS AND MANY line:85% position:31% size:68% PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT HE DID.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT HURT MY SON VERY DEEPLY.
line:85% position:24% size:58% MY SON IS 14 YEARS OLD.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND HE KEPT COMING TOO MY ROOM line:85% position:44% size:78% SAYING MOM, IS HE TALKING ABOUT line:85% position:12% size:18% MY DAD.
line:85% position:36% size:73% HE'S TALKING ABOUT MY DAD WHO line:85% position:50% size:80% DIED IN SERVICE IN IRAQ AFTER AN line:85% position:29% size:65% INCREDIBLY STELAR MILITARY line:85% position:12% size:18% CAREER.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THIS WAS A HIGHLY DECORATED line:85% position:13% size:20% SOLDIER.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND I ALWAYS SAID TO JORDAN, line:85% position:33% size:70% KIND OF WHAT I TRY TO DO, IF line:85% position:31% size:68% SOMETHING IS HURTING YOU OR line:85% position:50% size:80% UPSETTING YOU, ANGERING YOU, YOU line:85% position:27% size:63% HAVE TO CHANNEL THAT IN A line:85% position:15% size:33% POSITIVE WAY.
line:85% position:29% size:65% SO I ALLOWED HIM TO DO ONE line:85% position:50% size:80% NATIONAL INTERVIEW ON MSNBC WITH line:85% position:25% size:60% HE SPOKE DIRECTLY TO THE line:85% position:50% size:80% PRESIDENT AND SAID YOU ARE THERE line:85% position:27% size:63% THEIR COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU SHOULD SHOW MORE RESPECT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND IN THAT WAY HE WAS ABLE TO line:85% position:44% size:78% CHANNEL WHAT HE WAS FEELING TOO line:85% position:19% size:48% SOMETHING POSITIVE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THAT IS WHAT WE ALL HAVE TO line:85% position:40% size:75% DO, IN MICROAND IN MACRO WAYS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I WANT TO COME BACK AND I line:85% position:40% size:75% WANT TO TALK ABOUT JORDAN IN A line:85% position:50% size:80% MINUTE OR TWO BUT I WANT TO STAY line:85% position:29% size:65% ON THIS CONVERSATION POINT line:85% position:36% size:73% BECAUSE I THINK IT IS SUCH AN line:85% position:15% size:35% IMPORTANT ONE.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND HONESTLY DANA, WHEN I LOOK line:85% position:20% size:50% BACK AT YOUR CAREER, line:85% position:40% size:75% PARTICULARLY YOUR TIMES AT THE line:85% position:36% size:73% NEW YORK TIMES, YOUR 20 YEARS line:85% position:25% size:60% THERE, YOU WROTE FOR OUR line:85% position:44% size:78% VIEWERS, YOU MIGHT NOT BE AWARE line:85% position:33% size:70% OF IT, A FANTASTIC SIGNATURE line:85% position:44% size:78% PROJECT ABOUT HOW RACE IS LIVED line:85% position:20% size:50% IN AMERICA, WHEN THE line:85% position:31% size:68% PULITZER-- WON THE PULITZER line:85% position:12% size:15% PRIZE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% WE'RE AT A TIME WHEN WE ARE ALL line:85% position:40% size:75% OVERWHELMED WITH THE HEADLINES line:85% position:22% size:55% AND THE REACTIONS FROM line:85% position:33% size:70% CHARLOTTESVILLE, FROM GEORGE line:85% position:36% size:73% FLOYD, BLACK LIVES MATTER, OF line:85% position:50% size:80% HERE IN LOUISVILLE, WE WERE JUST line:85% position:29% size:65% TALKING A SECOND AGO ABOUT line:85% position:24% size:58% BREONNA TAYLOR AND THAT line:85% position:31% size:68% UNFORTUNATE TRAGIC EVENT IN line:85% position:40% size:75% MARCH OF 2020, AND HOW IT JUST line:85% position:40% size:75% HAS CONTINUED TO JUST PLAY OUT line:85% position:36% size:73% NOT ONLY ON THE LOCAL STATION line:85% position:36% size:73% HERE IN LOUISVILLE BUT ON THE line:85% position:16% size:38% NATIONAL STAGE.
line:85% position:24% size:58% YOUR PROJECT WAS SUCH A line:85% position:27% size:63% REVELATORY ONE ON SO MANY line:85% position:44% size:78% LEVELS, THAT AS WE LOOK SO MANY line:85% position:36% size:73% YEARS LATER, I'M CURIOUS, HOW line:85% position:44% size:78% WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE STATE OF line:85% position:36% size:73% RACE RELATIONS IN OUR COUNTRY line:85% position:33% size:70% AND PARTICULARLY I'M CURIOUS line:85% position:44% size:78% ABOUT WHAT STILL DIVIDES US AND line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT SENSE OF JOY AND OPTIMISM line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT YOU HAVE, HOW CAN THOSE line:85% position:24% size:58% DIFFERENCES BE BRIDGED.
line:85% position:29% size:65% >> FIRST I HAVE TO SAY I'M line:85% position:29% size:65% HAVING A MIKE PENCE MOMENT line:85% position:36% size:73% BECAUSE THERE IS A FLY AROUND line:85% position:44% size:78% HERE, SO I HOPE HE STAYS OUT OF line:85% position:15% size:35% THE INTERVIEW.
line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT SO EXCUSE ME IF YOU SEE ME line:85% position:17% size:40% GOING LIKE THIS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% WE ARE IN A WORSE PLACE THAN WE line:85% position:11% size:13% WERE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> 19 YEARS AGO, CLOSE TO 20. line:85% position:25% size:60% >> I WILL TELL YOU QUITE line:85% position:22% size:55% HONESTLY, WHAT WE HAVE line:85% position:50% size:80% EXPERIENCED IN THE LAST YEAR AND line:85% position:31% size:68% A HALF OR TWO HAS BROKEN MY line:85% position:12% size:15% HEART.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I THOUGHT WE LIVED IN A COUNTRY line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT WAS WAY FURTHER ALONG THAN line:85% position:12% size:15% IT IS.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS.
line:85% position:31% size:68% WE'RE SMART ENOUGH, WE HAVE line:85% position:31% size:68% ENOUGH EXPERIENCE WITH RACE line:85% position:40% size:75% RELATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% WE SHOULDN'T BE AT THIS MOMENT.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SO I ASK MYSELF HOW DOES line:85% position:14% size:30% THAT HAPPEN?
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I DON'T THINK, I DON'T THINK line:85% position:19% size:48% THE ANSWER IS EASY.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I THINK THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE line:85% position:40% size:75% WHO ARE JUST HATEFUL WHOSM ARE line:85% position:36% size:73% JUST HATEFUL AND THEY HAVE NO line:85% position:33% size:70% PLACE, YOU KNOW, INTERACTING line:85% position:33% size:70% WITH THOSE OF US WHO AREN'T.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I THINK ALSO SOME PEOPLE ARE line:85% position:21% size:53% SCARED AND DESPERATE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEIR LIVES line:85% position:33% size:70% DIDN'T TURN OUT THE WAY THEY line:85% position:31% size:68% THOUGHT THEY WOULD AND THEY line:85% position:44% size:78% THINK PEOPLE LIKE ME STOLE JOBS line:85% position:17% size:43% FROM THEM, RIGHT?
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND INSTEAD OF TAKING PERSONAL line:85% position:31% size:68% RESPONSIBILITY OR TRYING TO line:85% position:31% size:68% FIGURE OUT WHAT CAN I DO TO line:85% position:44% size:78% EMPOWER MYSELF, IT IS EASIER TO line:85% position:20% size:50% BLAME OTHERS, RIGHT?
line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SEE, LET'S line:85% position:33% size:70% SAY, A BLACK PERSON COMMIT A line:85% position:22% size:55% CRIME AND MAKE THAT AN line:85% position:40% size:75% INDICTMENT ABOUT A WHOLE RACE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% WHEN A WHITE PERSON CAN COMMIT A line:85% position:33% size:70% CRIME TKS IS ONLY ABOUT THAT line:85% position:12% size:18% PERSON.
line:85% position:31% size:68% AND SO IT'S COMPLEX, RIGHT.
line:85% position:36% size:73% HAVING SAID THAT, MOST PEOPLE line:85% position:44% size:78% ARE I BELIEVE ON THE RIGHT SIDE line:85% position:13% size:20% OF THIS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% NOW THE PROBLEM IS THERE AREN'T line:85% position:50% size:80% ENOUGH PEOPLE WHO TAKE WHAT THEY line:85% position:50% size:80% FEEL IN THEIR HEART AS A CALL TO line:85% position:12% size:18% ACTION.
line:85% position:29% size:65% YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT IS, line:85% position:36% size:73% WHETHER THAT IS MARCHING WITH line:85% position:33% size:70% THE PROTESTORS OR SAYING YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% KNOW WHAT, I HAVE ACTUALLY NEVER line:85% position:29% size:65% HIRED A BLACK PERSON IN MY line:85% position:33% size:70% COMPANY OR GIVEN SOMEBODY AN line:85% position:36% size:73% INTERNSHIP WHO IS A PERSON OF line:85% position:44% size:78% COLOR, I'M GOING TO DO THAT, OR line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M GOING TO MENTOR SOMEONE, OR line:85% position:40% size:75% IS AS I HAVE DONE IN MY CAREER line:85% position:40% size:75% AND ASKED OTHER PEOPLES TO DO, line:85% position:50% size:80% GIVE THEM STRETCH ASSIGNMENTS TO line:85% position:16% size:38% HELP THEM GROW.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THERE ARE THINGS WE CAN ALL DO line:85% position:25% size:60% IN OUR LIVES IF WE CARE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO, line:85% position:40% size:75% I CAN WALK INTO A STORE IN NEW line:85% position:50% size:80% YORK, MACY'S, SAKS FIFTH AVENUE, line:85% position:36% size:73% PUT ON BLUE JEANS WITH A PONY line:85% position:44% size:78% TAIL AND GET FOLLOWED AROUND BY line:85% position:40% size:75% SECURITY AND HAVE STORE CLERKS line:85% position:29% size:65% DISMISS ME, IT'S HAPPENED.
line:85% position:33% size:70% BUT I ALWAYS THINK TO MYSELF line:85% position:44% size:78% WHEN I RUN INTO SOMEBODY WHO IS line:85% position:31% size:68% EITHER DISMISSIVE OR SNOOTY line:85% position:24% size:58% BECAUSE THEY ARE MAKING line:85% position:36% size:73% ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT ME BASED ON line:85% position:13% size:25% THE SHELL.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND WE DO THAT TO EACH OTHER, line:85% position:12% size:15% RIGHT.
line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU ONLY BETTER THAN ME UNTIL line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU NEED MY BONE MARROW OR YOUR line:85% position:14% size:28% CHILD DOES.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THAT REALLY IS, I MEAN THAT line:85% position:29% size:65% IS AN EXAGGERATION, BUT IT line:85% position:40% size:75% REALLY IS AT THE CORE OF THIS.
line:85% position:15% size:35% WE ARE HUMANS.
line:85% position:21% size:53% AND WE ARE ALL HUMAN.
line:85% position:22% size:55% AND WE ALL HAVE VALUE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I THINK IF WE REMEMBER THAT, line:85% position:40% size:75% AND REMEMBER THAT FOR THOSE OF line:85% position:40% size:75% US WHO ARE BELIEVERS A THAT WE line:85% position:50% size:80% ARE GOD'S CHILDREN AND GOD CALLS line:85% position:44% size:78% US TO BE OUR BETTER SELFS, THAT line:85% position:13% size:25% WILL HELP.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THE STEP BACK MOMENTS AND THE line:85% position:50% size:80% TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK line:85% position:50% size:80% MOMENT, ALWAYS DOES PROPEL US TO line:85% position:31% size:68% A BETTER PLACE, HISTORY HAS line:85% position:40% size:75% SHOWN THAT, AND IT WILL AGAIN.
line:85% position:24% size:58% SO I DO REMAIN HOPEFUL.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> OKAY, OPTIMISM IS GREAT AND line:85% position:21% size:53% I'M WITH YOU ON THAT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I KNOW THAT THERE IS A LOT THAT line:85% position:33% size:70% DIVIDES US, HOW DO WE BRIDGE line:85% position:15% size:35% THOSE DIVIDES.
line:85% position:50% size:80% HOW DO WE OVERCOME WHAT FEELS SO line:85% position:44% size:78% MUCH LIKE THESE GIANT JUST GAPS line:85% position:44% size:78% AS IT RELATES TO RACE RELATIONS line:85% position:50% size:80% OR THAT WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAY OUT line:85% position:50% size:80% ON THE STREETS OF LOUISVILLE AND line:85% position:29% size:65% THE NATIONAL HEADLINES AND line:85% position:40% size:75% VIDEOS, ALL ACROSS, ALL ACROSS line:85% position:44% size:78% OUR COUNTRY, HOW DO WE OVERCOME line:85% position:20% size:50% WHAT IS DIVIDING US?
line:85% position:25% size:60% SWNS SO I'M NOT GOING TO line:85% position:50% size:80% PREVENT-- PRETEND HAVE I ALL THE line:85% position:33% size:70% ANSWERS BUT I DO HAVE THINGS line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT I ADVISE-- THERE ARE VERY line:85% position:29% size:65% FUNDAMENTAL, REALLY SIMPLE line:85% position:18% size:45% THINGS YOU CAN DO.
line:85% position:33% size:70% WE CAN'T LIVE IN SILLOS, I'M line:85% position:40% size:75% AMAZED AT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE line:85% position:27% size:63% WHO DON'T KNOW SOMEONE OF line:85% position:27% size:63% ANOTHER RACE AS A FRIEND.
line:85% position:31% size:68% IF THERE IS SOMEONE IN YOUR line:85% position:50% size:80% WORKPLACE OR YOUR CHURCH, INVITE line:85% position:20% size:50% THEM INTO YOUR HOME.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND THEIR CHILDREN, ENCOURAGE line:85% position:36% size:73% YOUR CHILD TO BE FRIENDS WITH line:85% position:40% size:75% SOMEBODY IN THE SCHOOL THAT IS line:85% position:17% size:40% OF ANOTHER RACE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE ONLY SCARY line:85% position:33% size:70% TO YOU UNTIL YOU GET TO KNOW line:85% position:11% size:13% THEM.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I HAVE HAD PEOPLE SAY IN THE line:85% position:36% size:73% CONTEXT OF JOURNALISTS, OH MY line:85% position:44% size:78% GOD, JOURNALISTS ARE THE WORST, line:85% position:50% size:80% ARE YOU THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, line:85% position:13% size:23% WHATEVER.
line:85% position:50% size:80% UNTIL I SPEND TIME WITH THEM AND line:85% position:22% size:55% HAVE A MEAL WITH THEM.
line:85% position:14% size:30% BUT NOT YOU.
line:85% position:14% size:30% BUT NOT YOU.
line:85% position:12% size:15% RIGHT?
line:85% position:13% size:23% >> RIGHT.
line:85% position:31% size:68% >> WHEN WE GET TO KNOW EACH line:85% position:44% size:78% OTHER ONE-ON-ONE AND BUILD FROM line:85% position:40% size:75% THERE, IT CREATES FAMILIARITY, line:85% position:40% size:75% WHICH GIVES US THE BEST CHANCE line:85% position:44% size:78% AT RESPECT AND ULTIMATELY LOVE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO I THINK GETTING OUT OF line:85% position:44% size:78% THESE, I CAN TAKE A LITTLE STEP line:85% position:44% size:78% IF YOU ARE TOO AFRAID TO DO IT.
line:85% position:44% size:78% DO ONE THING, YOU KNOW, GO TO A line:85% position:40% size:75% BLACK CHURCH IF YOU ARE WHITE, line:85% position:44% size:78% GO TO A WHITE CHURCH IF YOU ARE line:85% position:40% size:75% BLACK, HAVE YOUR CHURCHES HAVE line:85% position:33% size:70% MAYBE ONCE A MONTH OR ONCE A line:85% position:44% size:78% QUARTER, A UNITED, UNITY SUNDAY line:85% position:44% size:78% WHERE YOU WORSHIP TOGETHER THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% SAN EASY THING THAT CAN BE DONE.
line:85% position:16% size:38% MENTOR SOMEONE.
line:85% position:29% size:65% JOIN THE BIG SISTER LITTLE line:85% position:50% size:80% SISTER PROGRAM, TEACH SOMEONE TO line:85% position:33% size:70% READ, JUST DO SOMETHING THAT line:85% position:33% size:70% GETS YOU OUT OF YOUR COMFORT line:85% position:36% size:73% ZONE AND OUT OF YOUR SILO AND line:85% position:18% size:45% EXPAND YOUR WORLD.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I WILL TELL YOU, I HAVE FRIENDS line:85% position:50% size:80% WHO ARE 65 AND JEWISH AND I HAVE line:85% position:50% size:80% FRIENDS WHO ARE YOUNG AND ASIAN.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> THERE ANY TIME SOMEBODY NEW line:85% position:33% size:70% WOULD COME IN EVERYBODY ELSE line:85% position:40% size:75% WOULD LAUGH WITH US THEY WOULD line:85% position:31% size:68% THINK WE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE line:85% position:13% size:23% THINKING.
line:85% position:36% size:73% WHERE DID THESE COLLECTION OF line:85% position:17% size:43% PEOPLE COME FROM.
line:85% position:27% size:63% THEY ARE FROM EVERYWHERE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND SOME OF THESE FOLKS ONLY SEE line:85% position:36% size:73% EACH OTHER ONCE A YEAR AND WE line:85% position:44% size:78% HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS.
line:85% position:29% size:65% AND THEY CATCH UP WITH ONE line:85% position:13% size:20% ANOTHER.
line:85% position:29% size:65% BUT IT IS THE MOST DIVERSE line:85% position:12% size:15% GROUP.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WE ARE RICHER BECAUSE OF IT, line:85% position:36% size:73% MY LIFE IS SO RICH BECAUSE OF line:85% position:27% size:63% THE RANGE OF EXPERIENCES, line:85% position:33% size:70% STORIES PEOPLE HAVE TO TELL.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT I BENEFIT FROM JUST BY line:85% position:25% size:60% HAVING AN OPEN HEART AND line:85% position:36% size:73% WELCOMING THEM INTO OUR LIVES line:85% position:18% size:45% AND INTO OUR HOME.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> YOU KNOW WHAT, HAVE I LEARNED line:85% position:44% size:78% IN MY TIME HERE IN KENTUCKY AND line:85% position:33% size:70% IT'S BEEN ALMOST THREE YEARS line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT THERE EXISTS ALMOST THIS line:85% position:44% size:78% POLITE SILENCE AS IT RELATES TO line:85% position:44% size:78% RACE RELATIONS IN MANY CIRCLES.
line:85% position:36% size:73% OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE THOSE THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% ARE OUTRAGEOUSLY PROMINENT AND line:85% position:44% size:78% GOING BACK TO THE SITUATION YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% ARE TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF line:85% position:22% size:55% YOUR INTERVIEW HERE IN line:85% position:29% size:65% LOUISVILLE BUT THIS POLITE line:85% position:33% size:70% SILENCE I THINK IS SOMETHING line:85% position:24% size:58% THAT HAS JUST GOT TO BE line:85% position:13% size:25% SHATTERED.
line:85% position:31% size:68% AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE line:85% position:31% size:68% THINGS THAT YOU ARE SAYING.
line:85% position:15% size:33% >> THANK YOU.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> LET'S PUT THE PIECES ON THE line:85% position:44% size:78% TABLE, LET'S ACKNOWLEDGE IT AND line:85% position:22% size:55% MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> LET ME SAY SOMETHING ABOUT line:85% position:14% size:30% THAT THOUGH.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE RACE line:85% position:44% size:78% WILL TRIP YOU UP, TALKING ABOUT line:85% position:11% size:13% RACE.
line:85% position:29% size:65% JUST TALKING ABOUT SEX AND line:85% position:40% size:75% RELIGIONING, PEOPLE ARE AFRAID line:85% position:29% size:65% TO SPEAK OUT BECAUSE QUITE line:85% position:40% size:75% PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO BE VIEWED line:85% position:44% size:78% AS RACIST IF THEY SAY THE WRONG line:85% position:12% size:15% THING.
line:85% position:33% size:70% ESPECIALLY IN THE WORKPLACE, line:85% position:40% size:75% IT'S REALLY HARD TO BE HONEST.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND HAVE-- IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE, line:85% position:33% size:70% LOOK, THERE ARE FAMILIES WHO line:85% position:44% size:78% DON'T DISCUSS THESE THINGS, YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% KNOW, AT THE THANKSGIVING DINNER line:85% position:33% size:70% TABLE BECAUSE IT IS SO HARD.
line:85% position:40% size:75% SO IMAGINE OPENING YOURSELF UP line:85% position:31% size:68% TO STRANGERS OR COLLEAGUES.
line:85% position:44% size:78% NO ONE WANTS TO LOSE THEIR JOB.
line:85% position:44% size:78% BECAUSE THEY ACCIDENTALLY SAID, line:85% position:44% size:78% MISSPOKE OR SOMETHING THEY SAID line:85% position:19% size:48% WAS MISINTERPRETED.
line:85% position:31% size:68% SO IT IS HARD BUT THERE ARE line:85% position:50% size:80% SMALL STEPS WE CAN TAKE AND THEN line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY AS PEOPLE line:85% position:44% size:78% BECOME FAMILIAR WITH EACH OTHER line:85% position:29% size:65% THEY BECOME MORE KARTABLE.
line:85% position:29% size:65% AND CAN OPEN UP EVEN MORE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I WOULD TELL YOU THAT IN THE line:85% position:44% size:78% LAST SIX MONTHS, AS THINGS HAVE line:85% position:36% size:73% UNFOLDED THAT WE HAVE IN THIS line:85% position:40% size:75% COUNTRY, EVEN MY WHITE FRIENDS line:85% position:40% size:75% WHO KNOW THEY CAN SAY ANYTHING line:85% position:29% size:65% TO ME ARE GOING DEEPER AND line:85% position:31% size:68% ASKING ME THINGS THEY NEVER line:85% position:50% size:80% WOULD HAVE ASKED ME MAYBE A YEAR line:85% position:11% size:10% AGO.
line:85% position:17% size:40% >> THAT'S GREAT.
line:85% position:25% size:60% >> I WANT TO SHIFT GEARS line:85% position:13% size:23% SLIGHTLY.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I WILL PLAY OFF SOMETHING YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% MENTIONED A SECRETARY OR TWO line:85% position:33% size:70% AGO, REFLECTING ON YOUR LONG line:85% position:27% size:63% CAREER IN A NEWSROOM THAT line:85% position:33% size:70% OBVIOUSLY, THAT AMAZING CHAP line:85% position:29% size:65% TERK THE PULITZER PRIZE AS line:85% position:40% size:75% ADMINISTRATOR AND YOU TALKED A line:85% position:40% size:75% LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE REFERENCE line:85% position:24% size:58% TO ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
line:85% position:36% size:73% I HAVE A STICKER ON MY LAPTOP line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT I'M LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW line:85% position:24% size:58% THAT SAYS AMERICA NEEDS line:85% position:14% size:30% JOURNALISTS.
line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> AND YOU AND I HAVE GOT THIS line:85% position:40% size:75% SHARED PASSION FOR THE DEFENSE line:85% position:50% size:80% OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, THOSE 45 line:85% position:33% size:70% WORDS THAT CHANGED AN ENTIRE line:85% position:12% size:15% WORLD.
line:85% position:13% size:23% >> RIGHT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> MOST DEFINITELY IN AMERICA.
line:85% position:40% size:75% TELL ME WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE line:85% position:36% size:73% ABOUT THE ATTACK ON THE MEDIA line:85% position:18% size:45% THAT IS UNFOLDING.
line:85% position:25% size:60% AND I'M NOT TRYING TO BE line:85% position:50% size:80% POLITICAL SO I WANT OUR AUDIENCE line:85% position:13% size:20% TO KNOW.
line:85% position:17% size:40% >> THAT IS OKAY.
line:85% position:27% size:63% I DON'T MIND, BELIEVE ME.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> NOT TRYING TO BE PARTISAN BUT line:85% position:33% size:70% I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS line:85% position:44% size:78% ATTACK ON THE MEDIA AND THE WAY line:85% position:31% size:68% HAVE I LOOKED AT IT IS THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% OFTEN THIS INDUSTRY THAT YOU AND line:85% position:40% size:75% I HAVE BEEN A PART OF, THAT WE line:85% position:44% size:78% LOVE SO MUCH, THIS EXPLOSION OF line:85% position:50% size:80% THE FAR EXTREME LEFT AND THE FAR line:85% position:40% size:75% EXTREME RIGHT WITH THE TALKING line:85% position:50% size:80% HEADS AND THE ECHO CHAMBERS THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% HAVE EMERGED, I'M JUST-- HOW DO line:85% position:44% size:78% WE TALK ABOUT THIS WAR ON MEDIA line:85% position:50% size:80% AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES WE HAVE line:85% position:31% size:68% AS JOURNALISTIC THEATERS TO line:85% position:31% size:68% ADDRESS THIS HEAD ON AND TO line:85% position:44% size:78% PROVE THAT WE ARE NOT THE ENEMY line:85% position:15% size:33% OF THE STATE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> YES, SO THIS ACTUALLY HAVE I line:85% position:44% size:78% TO SAY DOES ANGER ME, IT ANGERS line:85% position:40% size:75% ME A LOT BECAUSE IN THIS CASE, line:85% position:50% size:80% THE PRESIDENT KNOWS THAT WHEN HE line:85% position:33% size:70% SAYS THESE THINGS IT INCITES line:85% position:29% size:65% PEOPLE AND IT'S DANGEROUS.
line:85% position:31% size:68% AND NOBODY DESERVES TO LIVE line:85% position:36% size:73% THEIR LIFE AND GO ABOUT DOING line:85% position:44% size:78% THEIR JOB WITH AN EXTRA DOSE OF line:85% position:24% size:58% INSECURITY AND RISK FOR line:85% position:16% size:38% POLITICAL GAIN.
line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S NOT RIGHT, AND CAN I SPEAK line:85% position:31% size:68% TO THIS WITH SOME AUTHORITY line:85% position:31% size:68% BECAUSE THE CAPITAL GAZETTE line:85% position:40% size:75% NEWSPAPER IN MARYLAND WAS SHOT line:85% position:29% size:65% UP AND PEOPLE WERE KILLED.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND I WAS ON THE BOARD OF THE line:85% position:33% size:70% PULITZER AND WAS THE ONE WHO line:85% position:31% size:68% URGED THE BOARD TO GIVE THE line:85% position:31% size:68% CAPITAL GAZETTE OUR SUPPORT line:85% position:40% size:75% LITERALLY AND ANYTHINGIVELY SO line:85% position:27% size:63% WE GAVE THEM A POSTHUMOUS line:85% position:33% size:70% PULITZER PRIZE, BECAUSE WHAT line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY DID THAT NIGHT, IS EVEN AS line:85% position:40% size:75% THE POLICE WERE COMING TO PULL line:85% position:33% size:70% BODIES OUT OF THAT NEWSROOM, line:85% position:44% size:78% THEIR COLLEAGUES WERE REPORTING line:85% position:40% size:75% FROM THE GARAGE, I SAID TO THE line:85% position:36% size:73% BOARD WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING line:85% position:44% size:78% HERE, WE NEED TO PUT THE WEIGHT line:85% position:36% size:73% OF THE PULITZER PRIZES BEHIND line:85% position:17% size:40% THEM AND WE DID.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AFTER WE VOTED FOR THE AWARD, I line:85% position:50% size:80% SAID CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO GIVE line:85% position:31% size:68% THEM, YOU KNOW, A FINANCIAL line:85% position:24% size:58% REWARD WITH THIS PRIZE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THE BOARD MEMBERED SAID HOW line:85% position:33% size:70% MUCH WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE.
line:85% position:20% size:50% AND I SAID $100,000.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND CAN I CALL FOR A VOTE AND line:85% position:40% size:75% EVERY HAND WENT UP UNANIMOUSLY line:85% position:13% size:23% IN FAVOR.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT WAS A SMALL THING THAT WE line:85% position:33% size:70% COULD DO TO TRY TO HELP THEM line:85% position:40% size:75% FIND THEIR WAY AND GET THROUGH line:85% position:40% size:75% THE GRIEF AND USE THE MONEY TO line:85% position:31% size:68% TRY TO REBUILD THEIR STAFF.
line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT THAT'S THE RESULTS OF THIS line:85% position:17% size:43% KIND OF RHETORIC.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THE PRESIDENT OBVIOUSLY WASN'T line:85% position:40% size:75% DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT.
line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT WHEN YOU INCITE PEOPLE WHO line:85% position:31% size:68% ARE ALREADY ON THE FRINGES, line:85% position:50% size:80% OR-- IN A POSITION OF POWER, YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% BECAUSE YOUR WORDS HAVE OUTSIZED line:85% position:50% size:80% INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE WHO COULD DO line:85% position:25% size:60% HARM, THAT'S NUMBER ONE.
line:85% position:25% size:60% I BELIEVE IT'S RHETORIC.
line:85% position:16% size:38% IT IS NOT TRUE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% DO WE GET IT RIGHT ALL THE TIME?
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> ABSOLUTELY 100 PERCENT NO.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I HAD A CORRECTION BECAUSE I line:85% position:40% size:75% MADE A MISTAKE ON A STORY, THE line:85% position:50% size:80% FIRST WEEK I WAS AT THE NEW YORK line:85% position:12% size:15% TIMES.
line:85% position:29% size:65% I LIT REALLILY WENT TO THE line:85% position:19% size:48% BATHROOM AND CRIED.
line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT 22 YEARS LATER I HAD A GOOD line:85% position:44% size:78% CAREER THERE AND WROTE A LOT OF line:85% position:18% size:45% IMPORTANT STORIES.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO JOURNALISM IS THE ONLY line:85% position:31% size:68% PROFESSION, I THINK, THAT'S line:85% position:50% size:80% WRITTEN INTO THE CONSTITUTION AS line:85% position:18% size:45% THE FOURTH ESTATE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% THE FOUNDING FATHERS UNDERSTOOD line:85% position:25% size:60% THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN line:85% position:27% size:63% INFORMED CITIZENRY AND AN line:85% position:22% size:55% INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM line:85% position:24% size:58% PROFESSION THAT INFORMS line:85% position:25% size:60% INDEPENDENT THINKING FOR line:85% position:22% size:55% DEMOCRACY TO FLOURISH.
line:85% position:20% size:50% THAT HASN'T CHANGED.
line:85% position:27% size:63% SO WE HAVE TO KEEP AT IT.
line:85% position:27% size:63% WE HAVE TO DO WHAT I CALL line:85% position:50% size:80% RUNNING IN OUR OWN LANE WHICH IS line:85% position:50% size:80% TO BE AWARE OF ALL THIS BUT KEEP line:85% position:36% size:73% DOING THE IMPORTANT WORK THAT line:85% position:25% size:60% YOU AND OTHERS ARE DOING line:85% position:44% size:78% THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY TO BRING line:85% position:36% size:73% ABOUT THESE IMPORTANT STORIES line:85% position:27% size:63% WHETHER THEY ARE BREAKING line:85% position:27% size:63% STORIES OR WHETHER WE ARE line:85% position:36% size:73% UNCOVERING SOMETHING THAT THE line:85% position:33% size:70% PUBLIC, THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN line:85% position:44% size:78% FROM THE PUBLIC AND NEEDS TO BE line:85% position:11% size:13% TOLD.
line:85% position:24% size:58% >> AND YOUR ROLE AS THE line:85% position:29% size:65% ADMINISTRATOR YOU SAW SOME line:85% position:44% size:78% AMAZING AND INCREDIBLY RELEVANT line:85% position:36% size:73% AND AGENDA-SETTING JOURNALISM line:85% position:27% size:63% DURING YOUR TENURE THERE.
line:85% position:31% size:68% HOW DID THOSE THREE OR FOUR line:85% position:50% size:80% YEARS AS ADMINISTRATOR SHAPE YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% AND PREPARE YOU FOR THE SIMON line:85% position:44% size:78% AND SCHUSTER ROLE, PARTICULARLY line:85% position:36% size:73% DURING THIS CONTENTIOUS TIME.
line:85% position:29% size:65% >> I THINK MY ROLE, MY TEN line:85% position:36% size:73% TURE-- TENURE AT THE NEW YORK line:85% position:50% size:80% TIMES PREPARED ME EVEN MORE THAN line:85% position:50% size:80% MY TIME AT THE PULITZERS WHICH I line:85% position:18% size:45% TREASURE TOR THIS.
line:85% position:29% size:65% BUT SPECIFICALLY, WHAT THE line:85% position:40% size:75% PULITZER EXPERIENCE DID FOR ME line:85% position:31% size:68% TO PREPARE ME FOR SIMON AND line:85% position:50% size:80% SCHUSTER WAS TO HELP ME EVALUATE line:85% position:36% size:73% THE BOOKS THE BECAUSE WE WERE line:85% position:36% size:73% CHOOSING THE BEST OF THE BEST line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I SAW ALL THE SUB MISSIONS line:85% position:25% size:60% THAT CAME IN I CHOSE THE line:85% position:40% size:75% PULITZER JURORS, I LISTENED TO line:85% position:36% size:73% THE DELIBERATIONS AT THE JURY line:85% position:36% size:73% LEVEL AND AT THE BOARD LEVEL.
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line:85% position:44% size:78% AND SO THAT REALLY HELPED IN MY line:85% position:36% size:73% ROLE NOW WHERE I AM RECEIVING line:85% position:40% size:75% JUST TONS AND TONS OF BOOK SUB line:85% position:31% size:68% MISSIONS AND HAVE TO DECIDE line:85% position:44% size:78% WHICH BOOKS WE ARE GOING TO PUT line:85% position:40% size:75% THE SIMON AND SCHUSTER IMPRINT line:85% position:12% size:18% BEHIND.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> SO SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT line:85% position:36% size:73% BOOKS LET ME CHANGE GEARS AND line:85% position:25% size:60% LET'S TALK ABOUT JORDAN.
line:85% position:36% size:73% 2008 YOU WROTE A BEST SELLING line:85% position:36% size:73% MEMOIR, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN.
line:85% position:31% size:68% AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS ITS line:85% position:33% size:70% PRODUCTION HAS BEGUN OR SOON line:85% position:33% size:70% WILL BEGIN, IN MAKING THAT A line:85% position:50% size:80% MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THAT DENZEL line:85% position:25% size:60% WASHINGTON IS DIRECTING.
line:85% position:36% size:73% TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT CHAPTER OF YOUR LIFE, DANA, line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I WANT TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT line:85% position:25% size:60% MORE ABOUT JRD AN TODAY.
line:85% position:25% size:60% >> THANK YOU FOR ASKING.
line:85% position:25% size:60% YES, THE MOVIE IS NOW IN line:85% position:15% size:35% PREPRODUCTION.
line:85% position:33% size:70% WE'RE SHOOTING IN JUST A FEW line:85% position:12% size:15% WEEKS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I AM PRODUCER ON THE FILM.
line:85% position:40% size:75% MICHAEL B JORDAN IS PLAYING MY line:85% position:50% size:80% CHARLES AND DENZEL WASHINGTON IS line:85% position:13% size:25% DIRECTING.
line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY JUST CAST THE YOUNG LADY line:85% position:24% size:58% WHO WILL BE PLAYING ME.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I THINK SHE'S GOING TO DO A line:85% position:13% size:25% GREAT JOB.
line:85% position:36% size:73% >> CAN YOU TELL US WHO IT IS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% >> YES, HER NAME IS SHAWNTAE line:85% position:44% size:78% ADAMS, SHE HAS DONE A NUMBER OF line:85% position:50% size:80% THINGS INCLUDING WON AN AWARD AT line:85% position:31% size:68% THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
line:85% position:20% size:50% AND SHE IS TERRIFIC.
line:85% position:31% size:68% I THINK SHE'S GOING TO DO A line:85% position:15% size:33% FABULOUS JOB.
line:85% position:44% size:78% MY FIANCE CHARLES WAS KILLED IN line:85% position:44% size:78% THE WAR IN IRAQ WHEN JORDAN WAS line:85% position:31% size:68% JUST SIX MONTHS OLD AND THE line:85% position:50% size:80% ENTIRE TIME HE WAS AT THE WAR, I line:85% position:44% size:78% WAS PREGNANT WITH JORDAN AND HE line:85% position:40% size:75% WROTE A JOURNAL TO HIM THAT HE line:85% position:44% size:78% STARTED BEFORE HE WAS BORN, 200 line:85% position:40% size:75% PAGES BE HOW TO CHOOSE A WIFE, line:85% position:33% size:70% POWER OF PRAYER, RESPECT ALL line:85% position:44% size:78% PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, TALKED TO HIM line:85% position:36% size:73% ABOUT BIBLE VERSES AND RACIAL line:85% position:44% size:78% DISCRIMINATION AND HOW TO TREAT line:85% position:17% size:43% A GIRL ON A DATE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND ON THE LAST PAGE HE WROTE A line:85% position:44% size:78% LETTER BASICALLY SAYING THIS IS line:85% position:40% size:75% EVERYTHING I COULD THINK OF TO line:85% position:31% size:68% TEACH YOU TO BE A MAN, IF I line:85% position:19% size:48% DON'T MAKE IT HOME.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND HE HAD 30 DAYS LEFT WHEN HE line:85% position:14% size:28% WAS KILLED.
line:85% position:27% size:63% I HAD ONLY BEEN BACK FROM line:85% position:50% size:80% MATERNITY LEAVE AT THE "NEW YORK line:85% position:40% size:75% TIMES" FOR TWO WEEKS WHEN THIS line:85% position:13% size:23% HAPPENED.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND HI A SIX MONTH OLD BABY IN line:85% position:44% size:78% MY LIFE, JUST HAD FALLEN APART.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND SO AGAIN, WITH THIS THEME I line:85% position:31% size:68% TRY TO KEEP WITH MY LIFE, I line:85% position:36% size:73% DECIDED I HAD TO DO SOMETHING line:85% position:33% size:70% WITH THIS OR I WOULD LOSE MY line:85% position:11% size:13% MIND.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I HAD TO DO SOMETHING POSITIVE.
line:85% position:40% size:75% NOW I HAVE GIVEN LOTS OF TALKS line:85% position:50% size:80% AROUND THE COUNTRY AND DIFFERENT line:85% position:50% size:80% PARTS OF THE WORLD ABOUT FINDING line:85% position:22% size:55% PURPOSE AFTER TRAGEDY.
line:85% position:18% size:45% AND ABOUT MY BOOK.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I SAY THAT REALLY IN THOSE line:85% position:22% size:55% EARLY DAYS I MEAN THIS line:85% position:44% size:78% SINCERELY, SOME DAYS SUCCESS IS line:85% position:40% size:75% JUST GETTING OFF THE FLOOR, OR line:85% position:44% size:78% GETTING OUT OF THE BED, THAT IS line:85% position:40% size:75% SUCCESS, IN THE EARLY DAYS FOR line:85% position:29% size:65% ME, GETTING OUT OF BED WAS line:85% position:13% size:20% SUCCESS.
line:85% position:29% size:65% THAT WAS A SUCCESSFUL DAY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT THEN YOU GET STRONGER, AND line:85% position:21% size:53% YOU BUILD FROM THERE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I DECIDED I HAD TO WRITE TO line:85% position:24% size:58% CHANNEL MY GRIEF AND TO line:85% position:36% size:73% FURTHER'S CHARLES' LEGACY AND line:85% position:33% size:70% CREATE SOMETHING FOR JORDAN.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND BY GOD'S GRACE IT BECAME line:85% position:44% size:78% THIS BOOK, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN line:85% position:29% size:65% WHICH IS A MEMOIR WITH THE line:85% position:40% size:75% JOURNAL ENTRIES INTERWOVEN AND line:85% position:50% size:80% IT IS IN TEN COUNTRIES AND EIGHT line:85% position:36% size:73% LANGUAGES AND I STILL TO THIS line:85% position:44% size:78% DAY HEAR FROM READERS ABOUT IT.
line:85% position:11% size:8% SO.
line:85% position:24% size:58% >> THAT'S GREAT, THAT'S line:85% position:13% size:25% FANTASTIC.
line:85% position:50% size:80% TELL US ABOUT JORDAN HIMSELF, 14 line:85% position:15% size:35% YEARS OLD NOW.
line:85% position:11% size:10% >> .
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> HE IS KINDER THAN I AM, WISER line:85% position:13% size:25% THAN I AM.
line:85% position:14% size:30% HE IS A JOY.
line:85% position:44% size:78% HE REALLY, HE TRULY IS, HE IS A line:85% position:36% size:73% VERY SPECIAL YOUNG BOY, YOUNG line:85% position:11% size:10% MAN.
line:85% position:27% size:63% AND HE PRAYSEV REE NIGHT, line:85% position:40% size:75% AND-- PRAYS EVERY NIGHT AND HE line:85% position:29% size:65% IS OBSESSED WITH POLITICS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND HE CAN TELL YOU PROBABLY line:85% position:31% size:68% RIGHT NOW IF YOU ASK HIM HE line:85% position:33% size:70% COULD TELL YOU THREE OR FOUR line:85% position:50% size:80% WAYS THAT EITHER DONALD TRUMP OR line:85% position:44% size:78% BIDEN COULD GET TO 270 WITH THE line:85% position:33% size:70% ELECTORAL COLLEGE, HONESTLY.
line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT IS HOW OBSESSED HE IS.
line:85% position:44% size:78% ONE DAY I REMEMBER LAST YEAR HE line:85% position:40% size:75% CAME OUT, MAYBE TWO YEARS AGO, line:85% position:31% size:68% MOM, THE J.F.K.
PAPERS WERE line:85% position:16% size:38% RELEASED TODAY.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND HE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT I line:85% position:36% size:73% FOUND, WHAT DID YOU THINK THE line:85% position:33% size:70% MOST INTERESTING THING IS IN line:85% position:15% size:33% THOSE PAPERS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I HAVEN'T READ THEM YET, YOU line:85% position:11% size:13% KNOW.
line:85% position:40% size:75% HE HAD ALREADY STARTED READING line:85% position:11% size:13% THEM.
line:85% position:18% size:45% AND SO HE'S BOTH A line:85% position:50% size:80% NATURAL-- ATHLETE AND A SCHOLAR.
line:85% position:29% size:65% >> DO YOU ENCOURAGE HIM TO line:85% position:40% size:75% PURSUE THE SAME CAREER AS YOU?
line:85% position:25% size:60% >> HE HAS TO GO WHERE HE line:85% position:36% size:73% IS-- WHERE HE IS MEANT TO BE, line:85% position:50% size:80% WHATEVER THAT IS, I WILL SUPPORT line:85% position:11% size:10% HIM.
line:85% position:29% size:65% I PRAY TO GOD IT'S NOT THE line:85% position:36% size:73% MILITARY AND I DON'T THINK IT line:85% position:50% size:80% WILL BE, BUT WHEREVER HE GOES IN line:85% position:19% size:48% LIFE, PERSONALLY OR line:85% position:40% size:75% PROFESSIONALLY, IT'S HIS LIFE.
line:85% position:44% size:78% MY JOB IS TO PREPARE HIM FOR IT line:85% position:27% size:63% AS BEST I CAN AND THEN TO line:85% position:14% size:30% SUPPORT HIM.
line:85% position:17% size:40% >> THAT'S GREAT.
line:85% position:29% size:65% I'M THINK BEING ALL OF THE line:85% position:40% size:75% DIFFERENT CONVERSATIONS POINTS line:85% position:50% size:80% WE'VE HAD OVER THE LAST 30 OR SO line:85% position:29% size:65% MINUTES AND THINKING ABOUT line:85% position:27% size:63% JORDAN AND ABOUT HIS LOVE line:85% position:50% size:80% OBVIOUSLY FOR CURRENT EVENTS AND line:85% position:40% size:75% ALL THAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED line:85% position:16% size:38% IN YOUR CAREER.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I'M WONDERING TONIGHT, DANA, line:85% position:50% size:80% SOMEWHERE IN KENTUCKY THERE IS A line:85% position:50% size:80% 16 YEAR OLD ASPIRING JOURNALIST, line:85% position:33% size:70% SHE HAS HEARD YOUR STORY AND line:85% position:50% size:80% LONGS TO PURSUE A CAREER IN THIS line:85% position:36% size:73% GREAT BUSINESS THAT YOU AND I line:85% position:40% size:75% BOTH HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% THERE ARE CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR line:85% position:40% size:75% HER AND FOR ANYONE UNDOUBTEDLY line:85% position:31% size:68% BUT WHAT WOULD YOU TELL HER line:85% position:50% size:80% TONIGHT IF SHE ASPIRES TO BE THE line:85% position:17% size:43% NEXT DANA CANEDY.
line:85% position:40% size:75% >> OH GOSH, WELL DON'T AS PAIR line:85% position:31% size:68% TO BE THE NEXT DANA CANEDY, line:85% position:36% size:73% ASPIRE TO BE THE NEXT WHOEVER line:85% position:13% size:20% YOU ARE.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I WOULD SAY THAT I LEFT HOME line:85% position:13% size:25% WITH $500.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND THERE WERE TIMES IN MY FIRST line:85% position:40% size:75% JOB WHEN I GOT OUT OF COLLEGE, line:85% position:40% size:75% WHEN I DIDN'T HAVE GAS FOR THE line:85% position:36% size:73% CAR, I WAS JUST HOLDING ON TO line:85% position:44% size:78% THE NEXT PAYCHECK, BEHIND IN MY line:85% position:25% size:60% RENT, BECAUSE I WAS JUST line:85% position:36% size:73% LAUNCHING MYSELF AND LEARNING line:85% position:36% size:73% HOW TO MAKE IT AND BUYING THE line:85% position:50% size:80% THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO CREATE A line:85% position:33% size:70% LIFE, YOU KNOW, PROFESSIONAL line:85% position:50% size:80% WORK CLOTHES AND A CAR THAT WILL line:85% position:36% size:73% RUN BECAUSE MINE WAS BREAKING line:85% position:16% size:38% DOWN, YOU KNOW.
line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I REMEMBER THINKING HOW AM I line:85% position:40% size:75% GOING TO DO ALL THAT I NEED TO line:85% position:50% size:80% DO WITH THOSE DISTRACTIONS, PLUS line:85% position:44% size:78% PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE IN ME line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SOME OF THEM IN MY FIRST line:85% position:11% size:10% JOB.
line:85% position:33% size:70% I WAS AWAY FROM HOME FOR THE line:85% position:27% size:63% FIRST TIME AND LONELY AND line:85% position:12% size:18% SCARED.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SO IF I COULD HIT A FAST line:85% position:36% size:73% FORWARD BUTTON, I COULD NEVER line:85% position:50% size:80% HAVE ENVISIONED THAT I WOULD END line:85% position:33% size:70% UP IN THIS PLACE, IF I COULD line:85% position:18% size:45% HAVE AT THAT TIME.
line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO THE JOURNEY IS PART OF line:85% position:14% size:30% THE PROCESS.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND ALL OF THOSE EXPERIENCES line:85% position:33% size:70% PREPARED ME FOR THE STRENGTH line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT I ACQUIRED OVER TIME, AND line:85% position:31% size:68% THERE WILL BE HARD MOMENTS.
line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU MIGHT CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT line:85% position:27% size:63% WHAT PROFESSION YOU WANT.
line:85% position:50% size:80% OR HOW TO GET TO THE PROFESSION, line:85% position:44% size:78% INTO THE PROFESSION THAT YOU DO line:85% position:25% size:60% WANT, YOU DON'T GIVE UP.
line:85% position:40% size:75% I MEAN HAVE I HAD TO BE REALLY line:85% position:50% size:80% CREATIVE LIKE YOU KNOW, WORK TWO line:85% position:50% size:80% JOBS, WOCK THREE JOBS, WHAT IF I line:85% position:40% size:75% TRIED THIS, WHAT IF I DO THIS, line:85% position:21% size:53% IF THIS DOESN'T WORK, line:85% position:50% size:80% RECALIBRATE, BUT DON'T EVER GIVE line:85% position:31% size:68% UP BECAUSE THE DIRTY LITTLE line:85% position:31% size:68% SECRET IS WHETHER YOU ARE A line:85% position:25% size:60% STUDENT, WHETHER YOU ARE line:85% position:44% size:78% ENTERING THE WORK PLACE IN YOUR line:85% position:36% size:73% FIRST JOB OR WHETHER YOU ARE, line:85% position:36% size:73% YOU KNOW, THE EDITOR OF A BIG line:85% position:27% size:63% NEWSPAPER OR A PUBLISHER, line:85% position:27% size:63% EVERYBODY HAS WHAT I CALL line:85% position:44% size:78% IMPOSTOR SYNDROME AND WHAT DO I line:85% position:15% size:33% MEAN BY THAT?
line:85% position:36% size:73% WHEN I WAS APPLYING FOR A JOB line:85% position:36% size:73% YEARS AGO AT THE MIMEY HERALD line:85% position:31% size:68% UNDER A CHAIN CALLED KNIGHT line:85% position:44% size:78% RIDDER AT THE TIME THEY GAVE AN line:85% position:40% size:75% EXTENSIVE SEVERAL PAGE WRITTEN line:85% position:36% size:73% PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAM AS PART OF line:85% position:33% size:70% THE JOB PROCESS, APPLICATION line:85% position:40% size:75% PROCESS AND I REMEMBER SITTING line:85% position:40% size:75% IN A ROOM FILLING THIS OUT AND line:85% position:40% size:75% WHEN I WAS DONE I HANDED IT TO line:85% position:50% size:80% WHOEVER IT WAS AND SAID WHAT ARE line:85% position:17% size:40% YOU LOOKING FOR.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAID?
line:85% position:24% size:58% INSECURE OVERACHIEVERS.
line:85% position:21% size:53% BECAUSE IF YOU ARE AN line:85% position:44% size:78% OVERACHIEVER YOU ARE RUNNING ON line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT LITTLE HAMSTER WHEEL AS line:85% position:17% size:40% FAST AS YOU CAN.
line:85% position:33% size:70% BUT IF YOU ARE INSECURE, YOU line:85% position:44% size:78% DON'T KNOW THAT YOU ARE RUNNING line:85% position:36% size:73% ON THAT, SO YOU WILL RUN EVEN line:85% position:12% size:18% HARDER.
line:85% position:33% size:70% AND EVERYBODY IS AN INSECURE line:85% position:15% size:33% OVERACHIEVER.
line:85% position:50% size:80% I NEARLY THREW UP THE FIRST TIME line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS RIDING THE ELEVATOR UP TO line:85% position:40% size:75% THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWSROOM TO line:85% position:14% size:28% GO TO WORK.
line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS LIKE OH MY GOD, THEY GAVE line:85% position:14% size:30% ME THIS JOB.
line:85% position:44% size:78% NOW I ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO THIS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SO TAKE IT ONE DAY AND ONE line:85% position:29% size:65% STEP AT A TIME AND BUILD A line:85% position:29% size:65% SUPPORT SYSTEM AROUND YOU.
line:85% position:44% size:78% PLACES YOU CAN GO WHEN YOU FALL line:85% position:11% size:13% DOWN.
line:85% position:24% size:58% PLACES WHERE YOU CAN BE line:85% position:25% size:60% CELEBRATED WHEN YOU HAVE line:85% position:13% size:25% SUCCESSES.
line:85% position:50% size:80% IT IS NOT GOING TO BE A STRAIGHT line:85% position:17% size:40% LINE TO THE TOP.
line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT THAT IS WHERE YOUR STRENGTH line:85% position:44% size:78% AND YOU HAVE TO HOLD ON TO SOME line:85% position:40% size:75% MEASURE OF CONFIDENCE, EVEN IF line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU DON'T FEEL CONFIDENT, FAKE line:85% position:44% size:78% IT UNTIL YOU DO AND KEEP GOING.
line:85% position:31% size:68% >> AND STAY JOYFUL AND STAY line:85% position:14% size:28% OPTIMISTIC.
line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.
line:85% position:50% size:80% >> WHAT WONDERFUL ADVICE, THAT'S line:85% position:44% size:78% GREAT, DANA, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
line:85% position:44% size:78% >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR line:85% position:15% size:33% THIS PROGRAM.
line:85% position:40% size:75% AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF line:85% position:15% size:33% OUR SPONSORS.
line:85% position:40% size:75% FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF line:85% position:40% size:75% THE ARTISTS, WRITERS, THINKERS line:85% position:27% size:63% AND GAME CHANGERS WHO ARE line:85% position:27% size:63% DEDICATED TO CHANGING THE line:85% position:33% size:70% NARRATIVE OF KENTUCKY ON THE line:85% position:14% size:30% WORLD STAGE.
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