Harold Evans Quotes
I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn't regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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I've signed a few sneakers in my day.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.
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The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!
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With few words, one can speak the truth.
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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Bump in my hoopty hoopty hoop. I own that. And I aint payin my rent this month. I owe that.
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It dawned on us after we'd been looking for six months that this is as good as it gets.
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My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
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Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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I had been at the newspaper for a few months. It wasn't regarded as the paper, it was their paper. There was a sense of community because they reported, we reported, I reported the little things, the whist drives, the weddings, the funerals, the little speeches. In one sense it was the most boring copy in the world to anyone picking it up, but, on the other hand, it was crucial to the people who lived in those communities.
