Eddie Mair Quotes
I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
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Life is funny, and a lot of times, the people that I've met have really gone past anything that I've ever dreamed of, so I'm really grateful. My friendships really go from the West to the East. You'd be amazed at some of the people I call friends.
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I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.
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It was men’s ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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For any actor, it's very important to make your co-star comfortable.
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I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
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Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.
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You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.
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I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news.
