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I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.


Shawn Ryan


#cannot #collaborative #extraordinary #great #humble

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.


Martin Ryle


#college #elected #fellowship #i #physics

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.


Saadi


#becomes #collected #consists #deal #drop

I blew the college boards, and to ease the snub from Harvard made a tour of Europe.


Steve Sabol


#boards #college #ease #europe #harvard

Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.


William Safire


#any #aside #cast #column #day

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.


William Safire


#columnists #drawn #eager #follow #grasp

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.


William Safire


#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.


William Safire


#appointment #being #columnist #court #like

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.


William Safire


#answer #bandied #brought #call #colleague

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.


Buffy Sainte-Marie


#artist #beginner #colors #down #especially






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