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He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#art form #belief #conceive #find #first

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#ace #after #biological #creative #creative writing

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#being #came #difficult #experience #father

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#capitol hill #company #contractors #everybody #formula

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#enjoy #how #make #matter #miserable

The best thing about the Congress is that it is the last place where you can have face-to-face interviews and interaction with the newsmakers themselves. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#best #congress #face-to-face #interaction #interviews

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#always #art #basis #being #draw

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#changes #draft #families #fought #group

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#i #know #life #me #means

We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#assume #basically #bit #cable #companies