"The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo."

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Source : "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.

Derek Tangye

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“Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.”
“Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.”

Source : StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.
“Have I done what is really important today?”
“Yoga always made me feel really good about myself.”
“Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made it black-and-white. Color is life; black-and-white is death. There was a ghost hidden in the invention of photography.”
“(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.”
“You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 22, 2011
“Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall.”

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