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