I’ve never been able to predict the future of anything.
BOB EDWARDSBetween 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep.
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I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
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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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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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Between 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep.
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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
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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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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’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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With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
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One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
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The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
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Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
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People are always ready to admit a man’s ability after he gets there.
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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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The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.
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