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"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
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"Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones."
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"It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously."
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"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away."
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"It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time."
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"I've never wanted to be the boss."
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"Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved."
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"I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years."
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"I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy."
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"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
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"Parenting is an impossible job at any age."
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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
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"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."
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"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
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"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."
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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
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"Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible."
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