"Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming."

“Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.”

“I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.”

Source : "Young, successful, well paid: are they killing feminism?" by Anushka Asthana, Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.

“You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.”

“Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.”

Source : David K. Shipler (2008). “The Working Poor: Invisible in America”, p.300, Vintage

“When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.”

Source : "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

“I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'”

“There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.”

“We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.”

Source : Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.224, Bloomsbury Publishing