"Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?"

-- Susan Orlean

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“Thereâ€™s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. Thereâ€™s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and thatâ€™s not something thatâ€™s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.”
“There are parodies of non-existent things.”
“Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.”
“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”

Source : "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure", www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.
“I just want to see around beautiful things. I don't realise how much I miss out on just seeing beautiful scenery.”
“I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.”
“Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.”

Source : Dudley Randall (2009). “Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall”, p.185, Wayne State University Press

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