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I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't

count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.
Robert Krulwich

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.
Jesmyn Ward

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
Robert Kennedy

There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
Tariq Ali

Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
Rob Thomas

When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.
Cate Blanchett

We're playing at our level of ability.
Dee Dee Ramone

I don't really strain my voice.
Daryl Hall

For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.
Art Alexakis

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