Anthony Rudel > Quotes

“Passion is the combination of lust and intellect. - (Giacomo Casanova)”
― Anthony Rudel, Imagining Don Giovanni

“Someday we will realize that man is not controlled by laws, but byb passions. it is the strongest of passions that led to mankind's finest artistic creations. Men who aren't motivated by strong passions are nothing more than mediocre creatures. Great passions yield great men. If there is no passions, there is decrepitude and stupidity. - Marquis De Sade”
― Anthony Rudel, Imagining Don Giovanni

“My life's been filled with adventures, and truths often become larger than life when they're retold. I never correct the tales that are especially hard to believe. It would be unkind to those who want to believe in them. - Giacomo Casanova”
― Anthony Rudel, Imagining Don Giovanni

“Despite the popularity of the coverage, spot news, as Sutherland described it, was still a rarity in 1927. Even with radio's instantaneous speed of dissemination, the ability to cover news with that same immediacy was not something radio stations were equipped to handle; during the 1920s that kind of on-the-spot coverage was taken care of exclusively by newspapers eager to sell extra editions. Since stations themselves were not really making any profit—the bulk of the money was being made by radio manufacturers—most stations employed little more than a skeleton on-air crew. Stations scrounged for programming to fill whatever hours they were on the air, and spending money on news reporters was unheard of.”
― Anthony Rudel, Hello, Everybody!: The Dawn of American Radio