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Alistair Cooke KBE (November 20, 1908 - March 30, 2004) was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke`s America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992 (the longest-running public television series in that country.) After holding the job for 22 years, and having been in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992. Born in North West England and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, he became a naturalized American citizen in later life, and lived in New York City with his family, reporting mainly for the BBC.
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Quotes A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn`t particularly feel like it Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. These humiliations are the essence of the game. As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn`t feel like it. It`s an acting job - acting natural. Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. Canned music is like audible wallpaper. A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn`t particularly feel like it. Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges. People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. | ||
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