"[News is] a first rough draft of history."

-- Phil Graham

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“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.”
“It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.”
“I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. [] Itâ€™s an unedited version of who you are. For me thereâ€™s something pure about that”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.”
“Men are what their mothers made them.”
“I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.
“A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff.”

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