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David Talbot

"I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges."

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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."

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"I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years."

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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."

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"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."

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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."

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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."

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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."

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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."

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David Talbot
"It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise."

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David Talbot
"They may be a little more high brow than we are."

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David Talbot
"My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college."

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David Talbot
"I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon."

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David Talbot
"I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it."

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David Talbot
"When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you."

Media

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David Talbot
"Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days."

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David Talbot
"Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession."

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David Talbot
"I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people."

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David Talbot
"People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world."

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