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Tom Brokaw Quotes

I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.

Tom Brokaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 6, 1940

Topics

Wrong Go Say Washington Unknown

Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.

Andy Serkis

Music Makeup Slow Camera You Choice

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Character You Finish Empty Film

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

John Podhoretz

Father Boss Employees Talking Right

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Stephen Leacock

Politics Political Nothing Economy

I have a very close relationship with my daughter.

Ron Cephas Jones

Daughter Relationship Close Very

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

Monica Lewinsky

Doing Back Movies Out Going Well

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music Soul Me My Soul Year Early

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

Jonathan Stroud

Things Happen Happen Nasty Ghost Who

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

Douglas Coupland

Beautiful People Speak You Want Try

I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock.

Anthony Head

Love Australia Rock Never See Been

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Wole Soyinka

Nature Quality Environment Kind

The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between music and design, because it has the motion and it has the dynamics of music, while at the same time having the aesthetic components of design. It's a nice mix.

Tycho

Music Time Me Horizon Design Feel