"As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing."

-- Andrew O'Hagan

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“I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.”
“Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.”
“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
“When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.”

Source : William Hendriksen (1953). “New Testament Commentary: Philippians”
“I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.”
“There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.”
“If you want to catch more fish, more often, take luck out of your fishing equation and replace it with knowledge of fish, their habitat and behavior, and you will make your own luck.”
“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.”

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