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"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."

"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

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

"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."

"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."

"I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced."
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"I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."


"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."


"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."


"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."


"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!"


"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."


"Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch."
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