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Quotes by Editor
"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work."
Work,
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"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
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"TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling."
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"Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon."
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"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
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"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
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"We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job."
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"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
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"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."
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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats."
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"Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04."
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."
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"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
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"The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them."
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"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."
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"When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying."
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"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
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"France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything."
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"Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information."
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"Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas."
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"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
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"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
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"I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was."
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