I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.
When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.
For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.
As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"
Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.
We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over nature. Now this attitude is impious, for, as has been noted, it violates the belief that creation or nature is fundamentally good, that the ultimate reason for its laws is a mystery, and that acts of defiance such as are daily celebrated by the newspapers are subversive of cosmos.
Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.
I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.