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"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
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"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."
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"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
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"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."
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"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."
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"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."
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"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."
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"A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter."
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"The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be."
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"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
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"I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes."
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"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."
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"I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them."
People

"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."
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"Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space."
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"And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing."
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"I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere."
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"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."
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"I never listen to music when I write."
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