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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."
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"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
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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."
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"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."
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"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."
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"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."
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"Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
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"Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."
People
"It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world."
Favorite
"It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict."
Conflict
"No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show."
Media
"If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press."
Hate
"Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out."
People
"The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't."
Fun
"It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears."
Trust
"Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously."
Politics
"Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy."
Comedy
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