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Quotes by Editor
"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
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"You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?"
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"It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it."
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"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide."
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"The most destructive criticism is indifference."
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"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
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"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
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"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
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"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."
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"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
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"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
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"In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points."
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"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."
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"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
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"We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order."
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"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."
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"Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups."
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."
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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."
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"No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through."
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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
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"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."
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"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with."
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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string."
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