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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
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Kingston
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
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You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.
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Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Knowing isn't doing doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.
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It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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