"I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding."

-- Howard Stringer

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“In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the centre of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.”

Source : "Snow Country". Book by Yasunari Kawabata, 1948.
“Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.”
“Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.”
“I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.”
“I had to detach myself from myself, if that makes any sense, to conjure an authentic first-person voice. In that sense, it was similar to writing a first-person novel. But I was writing about real people, not fictional ones - myself, my family, my friends and boyfriends and ex-husband, and that was extremely tricky.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.”
“Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.”
“Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.”

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