Andrew Marr Quotes

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• Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
• The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems…
• Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the…
• Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter…
• The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows…
• Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
• History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
• Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the planet,…
• In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations independent…
• Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
• Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
• Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers…

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