Robert MacNeil Quotes

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• Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
• I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
• Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I…
• Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for…
• Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
• I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what…
• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia,…
• From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or…
• And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
• The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
• After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been,…
• I never wanted to be a pundit.
• I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
• Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
• Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America…
• You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
• But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and…
• Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

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