"I grew up in kind of the last……" — Robert MacNeil
"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 was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
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18 Quotes by Robert MacNeil
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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…
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I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate…
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Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway…
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Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste…
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Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
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We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months…
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From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked…
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And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
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The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
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After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive.…
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I never wanted to be a pundit.
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I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the…
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Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
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Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the…
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Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new…
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
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The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers…
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of…
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Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's…
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