Sometimes it's good to be an outsider, especially as a journalist. - Gay Talese

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Sometimes it's good to be an outsider, especially as a journalist.

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About Gay Talese

(born February 7, 1932) is an American author. As a writer for and magazine in the 1960s, Talese helped to define . Talese's most famous articles are about Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra.

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Alternative Names: G. Talese Talese, Gay Тализ, Гэй Гэй Тализ Талез, Гэй Гэй Талез Г. Тализ Г. Талез
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If you're a child of store owners, if you're brought up in a store, you learn good manners. You have to be genial, well-liked. You're not going to sell a customer if you're rude. You also get with different age groups, and different types of people. So be respectful. Being respectful is very important. You have to learn this.

You should be proud of your profession because there's less lying in journalism than in any other profession. They lie in education, they lie in politics, they lie in banking, they lie in labor; there's liars all over the place. Sports? Full of liars. And there are liars in journalism, but if there are liars, journalism will out them.

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The whole thing had lasted only about three minutes. And three minutes after it was over, Frank Sinatra had probably forgotten about it for the rest of his life — as Ellison will probably remember it for the rest of his life: he had had, as hundreds of others before him, at an unexpected moment between darkness and dawn, a scene with Sinatra.

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