"I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published."

-- Sigrid Undset

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“Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.”
“I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.”
“It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.”

Source : "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.
“You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.”
“Everything has already been said, but not yet by everyone.”
“He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.”
“The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.”
“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”

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