"The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak."

-- John Lahr

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“in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
“They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.”
“When the Romani people came and settled in Gioia Tauro in the '60s and the '70s, they took over a neighborhood much like Africans are doing now that became like their "ghetto". Obviously, there are immense differences in Romani culture - there is more of a distrust of the outside and less willingness to integrate that stopped it from happening. The illiteracy rate is still very high, and they are still very much keeping themselves sectioned off from the rest of the community. I don't think that's going to happen with the African community.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.”

Source : Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”
“Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.”
“There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.”
“Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.”
“For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites donâ€™t do that, and itâ€™s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but itâ€™s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.”

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