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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't fee...  
Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopo...  
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.  
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.  
Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argum...  
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated b...  
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology...  
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 y...  
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce,...  
It's an acting job - acting natural.  
Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or wa...  
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fel...  
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. Peop...  
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settl...  
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. ...  
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him...  
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers o...  
These humiliations are the essence of the game.  
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say - as people always say about the...  
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christ...  
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did ...  
Who is this rare bird, perched at the eerie dead center of the world's...