Walter Cronkite Quotes
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.
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I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
