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"I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications."
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"I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications."
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"After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters."
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"I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me."
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"My songs are just little letters to me."
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"If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters."
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"At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails."
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"I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them."
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"I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have."
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"I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school."
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"The letters from jail are always disconcerting."
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"Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit."
Music
"I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years."
Beginning
"I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications."
Letters
"That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities."
Success
"Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor."
Acting
"My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer."
Life
"For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."
Movies
"We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records."
First
"We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication."
Dedication
"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."
Movies
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