"A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does."

-- Eugene McCarthy

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“[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.”
“You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you”
“To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.”
“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.”

Source : "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind...”
“But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?”
“In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.”

Source : John Chancellor (1995). “The New News Business: A Guide to Writing and Reporting”, Harper Perennial
“I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.”

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