A professional is a man who can do his best at a time
when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
-- Alistair Cooke, journalist
when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
-- Alistair Cooke, journalist
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- Never ... know a public man well enough that he inhibits you from writing
about him frankly and fully while he's living his public life.
Alistair... - I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the
morning.
A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were... - And what is the professional wizard's greatest reward for completing a
particularly arduous and dangerous task?
Is it the accolades of a grateful populace? Is it huge... - Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no; all he can do is
to turn his thoughts the best way.
Sir W.... - Let me tell you who the actual "front-runners" are.
On one side, you have George Bush, who is currently... - When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second
best.
Edward... - Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls ... In our house,
we have Alka-Seltzer on tap. If you cook like I do... - The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford,
Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history... - What do you take me for, an idiot?;
-- General Charles de Gaulle,
when a journalist asked him if he was...
