"My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet."

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Source : "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.

Steve Tisch

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“I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.”
“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press
“Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”
“There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.”
“The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as oneâ€™s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and make readers feel a little less lonely and freakish.”
“Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.”
“I do not like violence.”
“I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it...Something that's written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.”

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