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"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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"In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should."
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"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."
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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."
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"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
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"The world of books is heavenly paradise."
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"Read good books to improve your life."
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"We encounter great souls by reading great books."
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"There is no other enjoyment like reading."
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"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
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"Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it."
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"Public radio has always been so powerless."
Public
"I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much."
Love
"The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word."
Help
"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."
Office
"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."
Conservative
"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth."
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"I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize."
Reading
"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
Woman
"At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river."
Broadcaster
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