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“There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?”
Source : "What Is a Family?". Book by Edith Schaeffer, www.nytimes.com. 1975.
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“Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.”
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“Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives.”
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“I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.”
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“nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.”
Source : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.377
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“The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.”
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“Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.”