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"Public radio has always been so powerless."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
"If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable."
"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."
"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."
"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
"I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge."
"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
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"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth."
"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
"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."
"The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word."
"Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance."
"In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting."
"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."
"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."
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