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"I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s."
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"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."
People

"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."
Journalism

"Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff."
Time

"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."
People

"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
News

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
Television

"And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers."
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