Andrew Marr Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.”
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“History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.”
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“Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.”
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“The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.”
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“Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.”
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“Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.”
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“The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.”
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“Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.”
-- Andrew Marr