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Quotes by Editor
"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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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren."
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"The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible."
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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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"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."
36
"I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been."
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."
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"Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after."
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"Write about society as news and treat it like sociology."
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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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"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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"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
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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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"Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
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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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"It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts."
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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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"I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with."
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"There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues."
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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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"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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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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"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."
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