Host Quotes - Page 13

• I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Opportunity, Research, Lines

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I was never a nightclub manager or a hostess. I want to make that very clear. I was an executive at my club. I was a director of VIP operations, that's much different than a manager, that's much different than a waitress, it's different than, you know, a host - I was like an executive-level position

  Rachel Uchitel

  Different, Levels, Clubs

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• You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

  Jack Nicholson

  Wake Up, Tvs, Nightmare

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• I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.

  Ralph Strangis

  Football, Brother, Jobs

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• A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other. I think it would be highly unusual to find comedians who want to be at a loud, crowded party.

  Tig Notaro

  Crazy, Party, Thinking

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.

  Gore Vidal

  Like Being Alone, Guests

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Happiness, Practice, Car

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.196, Vintage

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• The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Guy, Presidential

  "No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume" by Ann Coulter, townhall.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

  Seth Rollins

  Shows, Daily Show

  "Watch Jon Stewart Kick a Wrestler in the Nuts on Monday Night Raw" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Church, Mosques, May

  Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.75, UPNE

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• I’m not being weird, you’re being a little rude. Don’t you think as a host, when I say ‘this is what I want to talk about’ that’s what we should address?

  Christine O'Donnell

  Thinking, Addresses, Piers

  "Christine O'Donnell Storms Out of Piers Morgan Interview Over ‘Rude’ Treatment" by Steven Nelson, dailycaller.com. August 18, 2011.

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• This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Individuality, Secret, Special

  Olaf Stapledon (2017). “Star Maker”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

  Garik Israelian

  Stars, Sun, Easy

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• I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

  Karl Marlantes

  Character, Long, Literature

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• The acknowledgment of powerlessness does empower. We humans are powerless over a whole host of factors and conditions in the world, and mostly we're not bothered by these.

  Peg O'Connor

  Empowering, Doe, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ambition, Two, Mad

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.211, JHU Press

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• Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

  Charles Fourier

  Cities, Purpose, Limits

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• A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Real, Guests, Interviews

  "Jenny McCarthy Breaks Down Her New Talk Show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Julie Chen. She's my ultimate celebrity idol. I think she's one of the most amazing interviewers and hosts ever - and would kill to pick her brain. I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.

  Tyler Oakley

  Thinking, Idols, Competition

  "TheBacklot Interview: Tyler Oakley". Interview with Louis Virtel, www.newnownext.com. September 4, 2013.

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• It was hard for me to do the show (All-American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show and the host said, "Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?" So I looked at the camera and said, "Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate."

  Margaret Cho

  Girl, Morning, Native Language

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans decided to do something about it, something like storm the TV studio during a live show.

  Tucker Carlson

  Soccer, Team, Storm

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

  William Watson

  Guests, Rooms, Mines

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• The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.

  David Lloyd

  Pride, People, Gentleman

  Speech in Limehouse, East London, on July 30, 1909. The Times, p. 9, July 31, 1909.

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

  Bill Johnson

  Sake, Privilege, Spirit

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