Allan Sloan quotes
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“I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.”
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“When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.”
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“Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.”
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“Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.”
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“Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.”
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“Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.”
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“I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.”
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“I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!”
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“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
Source : In National Observer 1 July 1963
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“She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.”
Source : Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”
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“diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”
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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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