I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
BOB EDWARDSAt a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
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Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn’t work when you think about it.
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I go home by noon, and I’m in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
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I wake about 1 a.m. I’m in the office by 2 a.m. We’re on the air at 5.
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Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you’re wearing one, and I don’t.
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Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
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It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.
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I’ve never been able to predict the future of anything.
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That’s the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they’ve been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
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One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
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The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to – by genealogy at least – a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I’ve ever read about slavery before.
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The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
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I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
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At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
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I’m still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It’s the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.
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