Charles Kuralt
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
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Life... It tends to respond to our outlook...I don't see a difference between playing a performance...It has long been an axiom of mine...Stolen kisses are always sweetest...My dream in life is to write the one gag...Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine...