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"Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice."
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"A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill."

"A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent."

"Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you."

"The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week."

"You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad."

"The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well."
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"What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news."


"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."


"Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to."


"My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else."


"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."


"The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations."


"The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role."
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