"Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing)."

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Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

Wilfrid Sheed

#Editors Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.”
“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team”
“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.”
“Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes.”
“If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas”
“The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.”
“I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this for the rest of my life? I think I might want to do this forever."”

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