"Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment."

-- Max von Sydow

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“I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show.”
“Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.”

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.
“The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”
“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
“You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.”

Source : Horace Kephart (1906). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness”
“You care enough to play hard to get.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2012). “Goodnight Tweetheart”, p.99, Simon and Schuster
“The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.”
“Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.”

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