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"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."
"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
"What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed."
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
"Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin."
"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
"Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals."
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"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
"Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives."
"Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper."
"If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked."
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