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I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
Hugh Hefner
You
Heart
Guess
Typical
Say
Kid
Could
Methodist
Just
My mother loaned me $1000. The first issue came out at the end of 1953. I knew I needed something original. I had a photographer shoot a 3D feature for the first issue and learned it would cost too much money. When the 3D thing turned out to be too expensive, at that same moment I came across the photos of Marilyn Monroe.
Hugh Hefner
Me
Money
Mother
Too Much
First
Too
Too Much Money
Monroe
Out
Photographer
Would
Photos
Cost
Something
Feature
Had
Knew
Learned
Came
Issue
End
Shoot
Same
Expensive
Turned
Much
Across
Moment
Original
Thing
Marilyn
Needed
Loaned
Marilyn Monroe
Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.
Jann Wenner
You
Yourself
Possibly
True
Greatest
Greatest Things
Being
Being Yourself
Things
I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and a regard for facts and into taking that stuff seriously is very important to the public discourse and it's very important to democracy.
Jann Wenner
Democracy
Seriously
Important
Believe
Think
Objectivity
Facts
Taking
Journalism
Stuff
Discourse
Very
Effort
Regard
Public
Public Discourse
Much
Such A Thing
Serious
Thing
The challenges are different to different kinds of magazines. News magazines, magazines that have high frequency and news, are going to be challenged, heavily challenged, not just by the Internet but by the whole 24-hour news cycle which has just been getting enhanced.
Jann Wenner
News
Challenges
Internet
Different Kinds
High
Kinds
Magazines
Frequency
Been
Getting
Going
Just
Different
Which
Cycle
Whole
Enhanced
Challenged
Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.
Jann Wenner
News
Photography
Quality
Internet
Long
Depend
Design
Despite
Fine
Magazines
Cable
Stuff
Reads
Going
Just
There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves.
Jann Wenner
People
Immaturity
Clean
Clean Up
Up
Just
After
Themselves
Who
Level
To be fair is not enough any more. We must be ferociously fair.
John Hay Whitney
Enough
Must
More
Fair
Ferociously
Any
The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.
John Hay Whitney
Day
Man
Experience
Every Day
Try
Job
Community
Every
Our
Give
Shape
Take
Excitement
Ideas
Involve
Him
His
Role
American
Interest
Should
Whole
Play
If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.
Jonathan Galassi
Time
You
Heart
Long
Long Time
Evoke
Mythology
Know
Look
Were
Blood
Up
Worked
Your
Company
Need
There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.
Jonathan Galassi
You
Business
Think
Take
Like
Learn
Course
Courses
Edit
How
Teach
Radcliffe
Mechanics
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
Jonathan Galassi
Life
My Life
Way
One-Way
About
Poems
Another
Always
After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
Jonathan Galassi
College
Studied
Couple
Couple Years
Years
After
England
I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
Jonathan Galassi
Myself
Out
Poetry
Always
Came
Psyche
Just
Explain
Then
Used
Sat
Things
Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.
Jonathan Galassi
Life
You
Yourself
Claiming
Feels
Like
Until
Deal
Huge
Your
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
Jonathan Galassi
Superfluous
Attached
Writers
Almost
Most
Always
Writing is inherently scary.
Jonathan Galassi
Writing
Scary
Inherently
Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.
Jonathan Galassi
Me
Big
Bishop
Clarity
Impact
Insistence
Rate
Something
Had
Highly
Particular
Well
Big Impact
Very
Personally
Her
Elizabeth
My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property.
Jonathan Galassi
Property
Battle
Value
Drive
Down
Think
Market
Our
Destructive
About
Price
Concern
Well
Force
Because
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Authors
Biggest
Acts
Publishers
A translation needs to read convincingly. There's no limit to what can go into it in terms of background research, feeling, or your own interests in form and history. But what should come out is something that reads as convincing English-language text.
Jonathan Galassi
Needs
History
Feeling
Own
Translation
Research
Background
Out
No Limit
Something
Come
Terms
Read
Limit
Reads
Go
Text
Form
Interests
Should
Convincing
Your
I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.
Jonathan Galassi
Work
Together
Book
Slow
Poet
First
Though
Rather
Had
Mainly
Italian
Work Together
Then
Translations
Published
Nearly
Starter
Gather
I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
Jonathan Galassi
Think
Somehow
Poetry
Except
Prose
Like
Read
Line
Very
Acknowledged
Breaks
Much
Should
I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.
Jonathan Galassi
Work
Control
Publish
Think
Books
Finding
Writers
Readers
Process
Them
Helping
Publishers
Need
There's been a fragmentation of how the market functions, but I believe printed books are here to stay. People like the tactile experience, the smell of them; there's a great romance to them.
Jonathan Galassi
Great
Experience
People
Smell
Believe
Fragmentation
Market
Books
Stay
Tactile
Like
Printed
How
Been
Romance
Them
Functions
Here
When you're in the throes of writing, I find, the lessons you've casually imparted to others are not in the forefront of your mind. Which may be good or bad. Probably both.
Jonathan Galassi
Good
You
Writing
Mind
Others
Bad
Find
Both
Casually
Forefront
May
Which
Your
Lessons
Everything is different - except for publishing itself: getting hold of an amazing author, working to make his or her book the best and best-looking it can be, telling the world.
Jonathan Galassi
Best
Book
World
Amazing
Everything
Telling
Except
Make
His
Itself
Author
Getting
Different
Hold
Working
Her
Publishing
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