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Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia. Margarita Simonyan
Problems Own Other Other Countries States Those Criticize Russia Mainstream Mainstream Media Journalists Countries West Which Prefer Ignore Europe Including Media United United States
When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow. Margarita Simonyan
Channel Our Negligible Telling Russia Audience Were Provocative Quiet Being Stories Really Grow Started
All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.' Margarita Simonyan
Our Anchors Moscow Begin Hello Shows
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. Meg Greenfield
Democracy Practice Everybody Objections Rise Only Gives Principle Stiff Thing
All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies. Otto Penzler
You People Fear Everybody Ghosts Vampires Find Had Feel Safe Likes Always Cultures Than Frightened Being Stories Them Personally Belief Zombies
I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories. Otto Penzler
Big Ghost Ghost Stories Pretty Always Been Big Fan Fan Stories
I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it. Otto Penzler
God Seen Wish Believe Ghosts Would See Could Never Feel Like Because Taste Then
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before. Otto Penzler
Before Interview Hopes Inside Something Mystery Writer Head Know Learn Read Hear Get
It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular. Otto Penzler
Age World Pure Locked Detective Detective Story Mystery Between Became Ultimate Golden Golden Age Form Story Which Room Really Wars Popular Two World Wars
A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page. Otto Penzler
Time You Mysteries Pay Pay Attention Every Think Other Setup See Seeing Something Thrillers Tend Mystery Take Attention Along Readers Lot Modern Move Happening Story Prefer Really Page
To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery. Otto Penzler
Day Single Out Mystery Never Figured
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
First Back Launch Writer Knew Were Site Wanted Regular Preparing
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Technology Science Facebook World Internet Before Community Twitter World Wide Web Virtual Web Facebook And Twitter Networking Had Science Fiction Robust Blogs Fiction Social Wide
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Experience Phone Space Rude President President Nixon Types Phone Call Astronauts Nixon About Remarks Call Making Hippie Reverence His Space Program Notion Even Watched Program
Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
People Down Books Those Thousand Some Online Having Most Obviously Make Make A Difference Sort Makes Blog Sales Sell Author Moderately Just Difference Public Modest Popular Even Profile Level Presence Copies
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
People Will Google Think Twitter Severe Habit Reader Blog Contrive Fiction Forms Use
One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone. Peter Bart
Conversation Problems He Brando Anyone
A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture. Peter Bart
Decision Made Picture Meeting Finally Given Make Whether
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat. Peter Bart
New Around Up Brat York Hanging New York Where Manhattan Movie Grew Theaters Movie Theaters
It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. Peter Bart
Creativity Nurture Corporation Major Been Any Really Level
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. Peter Bart
Relatively Corporations TV Minor TV Shows Only Overall Became Years Regard Irritant Which Movies Hollywood Multinational Shows Activity Playground Recent Recent Years
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. Peter Bart
You Behavior Value Stars Top Detect Study Brand Public Keen
The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process. Peter Bart
Creative Creative Process Corporate Danger Purely Town Becoming Biggest Process Hollywood Resides
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground. Peter Bart
Gay Become Society Evidence Though Entertainers Emerging More Lifestyles Open Feel Velvet Attitudes Underground Cozy Moved Little Should Certainly Basic
There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm that could give writers a first draft or a starter kit, so it could enable people to be more prolific in their writing. Philip M. Parker
You People Writing First Stumble Algorithm Prolific Give More Kit Could Blank Blank Page Writers Enable Lot Want Page Who Draft Starter Imagine
The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession. Rebekah Brooks
Quality Will Recession Our Journalism Make Industry Break
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