209 Quotes by Tina Brown

She's handled herself with enormous gallantry, ... She must have been through a lot of private pain, but she's put her best foot forward and she's tried to start a new life.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.

What’s interesting about the Taliban, is they’re more afraid of educating girls than they are of drones. One educated girl is more scary to the Taliban than a drone.

I just wanted to have fun for myself – I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I’ve been or something I’ve done. Or politics. It’s going to what’s on my mind at the moment.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don’t know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that’s by far the best way to break in.

I think for a young journalist, it’s better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.