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Quotes by Editor
"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."
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"I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time."
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"I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all."
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"It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence."
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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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"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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"No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through."
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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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"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with."
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"The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church."
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"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
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"The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment."
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"Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient."
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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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"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."
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"Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table."
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"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."
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"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie."
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"If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside."
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"The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector."
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"I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren."
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"Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it."
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"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."
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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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"If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide."
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"It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts."
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"Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes."
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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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"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."
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"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."
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