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"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
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"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!"
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"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."
Dream
"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."
Family
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
Press
"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."
People
"The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God."
God
"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."
Men
"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."
Children
"To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin."
Action
"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."
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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
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"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."
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"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
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"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."
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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
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"Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible."
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