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I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

Bill Kurtis

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
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Away Passing Replayed Singers Stars
There’s room for a diversity of ages on television.
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Age Diversity Television
If you’re a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot – and you’re willing to spend a bundle to get it.
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Bundles Much Producer Want
First of all, I’m a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it’s at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There’s just a good feel to it.
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Country First Friendly Kansas Stockyard
My personal philosophy is I’m running a 100-yard dash, and I haven’t reached the end.
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Hygiene Philosophy Running
I’ve been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
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Documentaries Events Producing Weather Years
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it’s predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
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Ice Predicted Same Summer Years
I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.
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East Kansas Looks
I think I’m so old I’m in. We call it the ‘Tony Bennett Syndrome.’ For some reason, young people think I’m cool.
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People Reason Thinking
I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.
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Different Experience Use Wanted Years
There’s something magical about putting yourself into life. You’ve got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
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Magic Responsibility Taking
In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it’s pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.
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Country Everyone Job Jobs Next
The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say ‘we’ll let it go this time,’ you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
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Boss Important Let Go Minute Time
I travel so much on stories, so I don’t take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.
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Again Stories Travel Vacation
I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.
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Believe Intelligent People Question
I’d like ‘Morning News’ to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the ‘New York Times’ will want to watch us.
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Country Edition Morning Watches

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

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I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

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