"My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was."

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Source : 1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.19.

Arthur Christiansen

#Ideas Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Pages Quotes

“I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.”
“A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward.”
“If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.”

Source : Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.103, Bottom of the Hill
“Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?”

Source : "Food and Drink".
“All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.”

Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.159
“It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.”
“Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

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