"One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want."

-- Roone Arledge

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“When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.”
“You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.”
“It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostâ€”not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.”
“The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.”
“The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.”
“I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.”
“Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.”
“I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.”

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