"Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation."

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Source : "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

David Puttnam

#Self Quotes #Editors Quotes #Special Quotes

“Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.”
“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.213, Hot Key Books
“And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say”
“When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.”
“Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.111
“I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.”

Source : "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien (Chapter Eight "A New Constitution", p. 189), 1985.
“I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”

Source : VP Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 20 July 2016
“I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!”

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