I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.
Dick Cavett
Recitation: by Male by Female
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
John Gregory Dunne
WindowWhateverOutsiderSideNose
Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.
Matt Smith
WorldYouLosePhoneSometimesYour
I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.
Anita Elberse
SportsTimeMeDataPublic Domain
So much of what we do with our lives is worrying about the things we've done or the things we want to do instead of just being present in the now.
Matt Czuchry
PresentDoneNowWantThingsJust
Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize the answer, and you can't attach the one thing to some other things. It's just the one thing.
Jeff Weiner
SimpleYouTrueQuestionDifficult
People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.
Tracey Emin
PeopleSweetRevengeRemember
People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.
Roger Ailes
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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
Russell Baker
TodayDayWineWhiteYoungGlass
It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.
Michelle Huneven
LifePeopleFactsRealityLiterature
L.A. I could live without.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
LiveWithoutCould
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
Jay-Z
HomeMusicRacismMeCoolListening
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
Don Hewitt
BestPeopleLongYouJournalism
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