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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.
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A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
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The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity...
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I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
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The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.
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What would you rather be? 52 and look 52, or 52 and look like a 28-year-old lizard?
