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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech."
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"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."
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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound."
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"I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself."
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"Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia."
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"That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect."
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"You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life."
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"My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates."
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"To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right."
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"And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes."
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