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Hello, good evening and welcome.
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
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Being upbeat is the key to life.
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If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.
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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
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Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
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Seriously, though, he's doing a grand job!
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You often see politicians who try to put on a different persona; they think they should be more jolly or serious. Invariably, the persona they choose is worse than their own.
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Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
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Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
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Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
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