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Mike Wallace Quotes

I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares.

Mike Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1918 - April 7, 2012

Topics

People You Phone Try Talk Write

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

Joanna Lumley

Me You Place Edge Go Know

I want to know how the mind works.

John O'Keefe

Mind Know Want How Works

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Maya Angelou

Mother Me Parent Kind Became

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

John Lee Hooker

Road Go Want Out Big Tours

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

Stephen R. George

Writing Impact Got Quite Teenager

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Bayley

Style Reality Manners More Taste

I directed Bebe Neuwirth in 'Here Lies Jenny' at the Post Street Theatre. I was gobsmacked - the audiences were extremely knowledgeable, affectionate, interested, and not cynical.

Roger Rees

Theatre Street Cynical Here Post

I learned nothing while I was in school.

Lorraine Bracco

School Nothing Learned While

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

Deborah Harkness

Women Death Literature Tell Park Us

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

Chris Pine

Fun Interesting Actor Same Over

My grandmother was not a U.S. citizen. Growing up along the border, you see the real human side of immigration - not the picture often drawn by politicians far removed from the border.

Pete Gallego

Growing Up Border Immigration Picture

The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.

Seth Shostak

Life Great Time Deep Enough Ice