Linda Ellerbee Quotes - Page 2

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• Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

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  Self Esteem, Style

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

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  Anchorman, Jesus, Block

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

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  How You Feel, Temperature, Feels

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• There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

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  Real, Goes On, May

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

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  Life, Guests, Tables

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• I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

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  Two, People, Trying

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I think laughter may be a form of courage.

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  Laughter, Thinking, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

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  Mean, Government, America

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• When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

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  Anchorman, Uniforms, Colonels

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

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  Learning, Feelings, Knows

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

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  Basketball, Cheerleading, Games

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• It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

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  Funny, Brain, Nuclear

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

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  Change, Youth, Like You

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• The new national campfire - radio.

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  Radio, Campfire

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• Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

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  Lying, Believe, People

  Linda Ellerbee (1991). “Move on: adventures in the real world”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

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  Mistake, Rain, Long

  Linda Ellerbee (1991). “Move on: adventures in the real world”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

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  Movement, Revolution, Polite

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.

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  Change, Believe, Tomorrow

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• We tried to do the news without frills, without fluffy hairdos, without graphics. It does say something about our business that is not very pretty. It didn't matter how good the show was. What counted was money.

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  Media, Doe, News

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• Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

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  Long, People, Wire

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• Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

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  Fancy, Information, Polish

  "High-tech falsies fill the gap for women who don't want surgery" by Cynthia Robins, www.sfgate.com. December 21, 1995.

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