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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."
"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
"Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help."
"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
"At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword."
"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
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"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."
"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."
"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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