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About Patrick Losey

  • Michael James Kacey began his career as an actor before embracing filmmaking. He has written, directed and produced two feature films through his company Anthracite Films: "Daybreak" and "The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin." His current project, a detailed look at radio in America, is called "In The Public Interest."
NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 3, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 3, 2015

I love irony, I must say. I feel like Luke Skywalker wielding his light sword. The weapon is something I love to use, but I don’t think I can be charged with using it improperly. I hoped to use it eff ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 26, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 26, 2015

The enemy is indeed tangible. Disease is an enemy. It has killed more people than armies.   “Could Be” from the book “Overkill and Megalove” (1963) also the 1949 radio broadcast ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 19, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 19, 2015

Our spirit of liberalism had been as ruthlessly suppressed as anywhere in the world, short of the kind of torture and murder that you find in the truly benighted countries. The swing to the right that ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 12, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 12, 2015

Mediocrity is, above all, comfortable. It makes modest demands on the powers of perception and ratiocination, and none at all on creativity. This translates into business opportunities—to supply insta ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 5, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 5, 2015

The staff organist at the electric console of the average ball park ranks somewhere between a public nuisance and a public enemy.   “Beisbol, Anyone?” from the book “Holes in a Stained Glass Wind ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 29, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 29, 2015

Charity toward the enemy in war is less common than tap-dancing on quicksand, but there are never any bounds to cruelty. All it takes to excel at it is power, opportunity and vileness.   “Fifty Years ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 22, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 22, 2015

The lingo is polite as varnish, Sincere as the wax-faced undertaker saying, “We are sorry about your loss.” And after the notes are exchanged, and high respects transmitted like wires on Mothers Day, ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 15, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 15, 2015

Odds in battle are at best ridiculous, like rolling warped dice on a lumpy table. The ultimate risk of the gamble is of course loss of everything, with no chance to recoup—known, metaphorically, as De ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 8, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 8, 2015

I am very much bothered by lapses of taste. Taste is exercised every time that you put a word down.   From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...

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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 1, 2015

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 1, 2015

Your Honor, if we exalt priests, who are stewards of a dubious peace on earth, why should we not honor pimps, who are intermediaries of a peace in bed? Pimps are but prompters of the carnal dialogue w ...

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