"A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?"

-- Brian Aldiss

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“I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.”
“Can a woodchuck chuck wood? Because the question is, "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if," so you haven't established or proved without any shadow of a doubt that a woodchuck could chuck wood. Frankly, I believe that they chew wood. I don't think they can chuck wood at all! I take offense to the whole chucking question.”

Source : "An interview with Tim Allen". Interview to Laugh Factory Magazine, www.timallen.com. 1994.
“All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.
“No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.”
“We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.”
“With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.”
“I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.”
“It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.”

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