A biography for Ronan Farrowhasn’t been written yet.
“You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.”
“Not to psychologize, but it's hard growing up in a family of 14 to ever feel like you're the center of the universe, or that you're that special or different. Because when it comes down to it, you're still fighting for food at the dinner table.”
“When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.”
“It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.”
“Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.”
“Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'”
“You're not hearing people like Madeleine Albright argue that the budget of the State Department should be as large as the Defense Department. The Pentagon is going to be larger by its nature. It's going to have more people.”
“I have a brother who's a schoolteacher, a sister who's a graphic artist, a brother who is a lawyer. I have a brother who's a carpenter.”
“I grew up in a family that had young people adopted from all over the world.”
“Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.”
“Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were pretty entertaining. And he's translating all of that into a policy agenda.”
“Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.”
“My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it.”
“I can say whatever I want. I will be nothing but unfiltered with my audience.”