"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."

-- Constance Baker Motley

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“I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.”
“I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture booksâ€¦. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.”
“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold”
“I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say, thank God she's gone”
“I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.”
“After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night.”
“A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.”
“In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

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