"That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate."

-- Bob Edwards

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“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.”
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darknessâ€”I am nothing.”
“A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house”
“Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that.”
“Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.
“I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.”
“What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.”
“Why put it on if you're not going to strut?”

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