Literature Quotes - Page 40

• As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

  Anthony Holden

  Writing, Years, Lasts

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• He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

  Anthony Holden

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Thinking, Height

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• I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

  Anthony Holden

  Teacher, School, Remember

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• I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

  Anthony Holden

  Thinking, Breathing Space, Media

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• I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

  Anthony Holden

  Thinking, Two, Way

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• It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

  Anthony Holden

  Insulting, Reputation, Courses

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• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Pressure, Done

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• The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

  Anthony Holden

  Years, Practice, Design

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• Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.

  Anthony Holden

  Attitude, Thinking, Years

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• What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

  Anthony Holden

  Nice, People, Sophisticated

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• When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

  Anthony Holden

  Growing Up, War, Princess

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• While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Sunday, Observers

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• A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

  Anthony Trollope

  Pieces, Fellows, Property

  Anthony Trollope (1875). “The Way We Live Now”, p.37

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• I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

  Audre Lorde

  Very Happy, Walkers

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• If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

  Barbara Walters

  Men, Authority, Aggressive

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• All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

  Bryan Procter

  Waiting, Rooms, Silent

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• But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

  Bob Schieffer

  Past, People, Found

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• I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

  Bob Schieffer

  Growing Up, Television, Newspaper Reporters

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• I used to be a print reporter.

  Bob Schieffer

  Used, Print, Reporters

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• It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

  Bob Schieffer

  Challenges, Persons, Right Person

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• Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

  Bob Schieffer

  Trying, Answers, Way

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• They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

  Bob Schieffer

  Mean, Life Is, Knows

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• [Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Issues, People

  "Woodward, a Bush Tool? Remember How Clinton-Friendly He Was" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. October 1, 2006.

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• I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.

  Bob Woodward

  Book, Long, Asking

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