"If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom... What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint."

-- Tom Wicker

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“At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.”
“You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.”
“I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.”

Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.107, New Directions Publishing
“You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down”
“It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing”
“She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.”

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