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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

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Who quick be to borrow and slow be to pay, their credit is naught, go they ever so gay.

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

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Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

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God sendeth and giveth both mouth and meat.

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Seek home for rest, for home is best.

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The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

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Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

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Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

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