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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Media, Truth, Wisdom, Knowledge, Insight

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Media, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Media, Eternity, Sight

"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Media, Day, Writer

"Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That's why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Media, Celebrity, Guidance, Choice, Success

"News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this."

Steven Magee, British Author

Media, Propaganda, Truth, Emotion

"I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages."

Connie Chung, American Journalist

Media, Network, Will

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

Gore Vidal, American Novelist

Media, Corporate, Country, Dissent, First

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Media, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

Design

"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture."

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"There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have."

People

"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."

Literature

"If it's not American, the French won't go see it."

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"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."

Science

"I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal."

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"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."

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