"You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it."

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Source : Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”

Larry Speakes

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“Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.”
“Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.”
“Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.”
“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.”
“But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.”
“I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.”
“All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them.”

Source : Roger Deakin (2008). “Notes from Walnut Tree Farm”, p.242, Penguin UK

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